BY TREI RAMSEY

Trei Ramsey is a self-taught multidisciplinary visual artist who works and lives in Washington D.C. He creates work that is described as powerful, colorful, and fun. Ramsey’s practice as an artist is inspired by his childhood obsession with Saturday morning cartoons, mythology, comic books, and western art history. Ramsey seeks to create a body of work that speaks to groups that are often ignored, by using the eclectic concepts he absorbed while growing up in America. To that end, Ramsey uses pop-art, surrealism, and cartooning to create work that looks or feels familiar but twists what is known to expose what is often hidden or purposefully relegated to obscurity: “it is like comfort food supplemented with essential vitamins, the equivalent of coating strong medicine with a chocolate shell.”

Ramsey’s artistic goal is to uplift, educate, and explore how we are similar to each other. He also wants to show how art and artmaking are accessible and vital for everyone. For those reasons Ramsey uses cartoonish imagery, vivid colors, and nostalgia in his work.

Ramsey is also an actor, writer, DJ/producer, and an aspiring toy designer. He has published a children’s book, a collection of short stories, and is featured in various short films and video games. He earned his BFA in theater from Howard University.