golden lionheart collier is a transdisciplinary artist, autonomous open researcher, facilitator, archivist, and publisher whose praxis unearths and honors diasporic wisdoms that defy static or linear narratives. Grounded in a polymathic exploration of kindred transatlantic perspectives, their research harnesses ancestral movement, performance, print media, lens-based works, sound design, interactive facilitation, new media installation, and more.
They were a 2024 XENO Book Artists' Prize finalist, received the CODEX International Biennial Research Scholarship, and were recently selected as a featured artist for Visual Arts Journal. Their artistic research publications reside in noteworthy collections like The Getty Museum Research Institute and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and their lens-based work has been exhibited internationally, including at The Director's Guild of America and Melbourne Queer Film Festival. They are a radio host at KBOO and an invited reader for NIME 2025. Their award-winning, Kirkus-starred book, Black Punk Now, is accessible everywhere books are sold.
At MacDowell, collier explored a range of transdisciplinary inquiries. They made a 1:1 drum-leaf relief and ephemera artist monotype book; completed multiple new sound art pieces using modular synth, archival recording, and viola; shot over 50 hours of process documentation with their cinema, action, and film cameras; conducted original research compiling all Black/African MacDowell Fellows since inception for a perfect-bound limited artistic research book edition; taught a modular synth workshop for Fellows using sound in their work; and completed the largest cyanotypes they've ever attempted. They are a 2026 Spatial Sound Artist in Residence at Audium Theatre of Sound in San Francisco and their time to rest and create at MacDowell will directly support their upcoming research and performance cycles.
