Angelbert Metoyer 

Angelbert Metoyer (born 1977, Houston, TX) is a multidisciplinary visual artist whose work explores memory, mythology, and the metaphysical through drawing, painting, sculpture, sound, and installation. Rooted in an Afrofuturist lens, Metoyer’s practice weaves ancestral narratives with imaginative visions of the future. Known for his use of unconventional materials such as coal, glass, tar, gold dust, and ash, his works transform raw matter into meditative investigations of spirit and history.  

Over the past 30 years, Metoyer has built a wide-reaching career that began with his first solo exhibition at Project Row Houses in 1994. He studied at Texas Southern University and the Atlanta College of Art, and has since exhibited internationally in Cuba, China, Peru, Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. His work is held in major collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History; Syracuse University Special Collections; the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig; the African American Museum in Dallas; the Mott-Warsh Collection; and the US Department of State. He has held artist residencies at the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas and the Warfield Center for African and African American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.  

His visual collaborations extend into publishing and music, including book covers for Saul Williams, Myronn Hardy, and Walter K. Delbridge, and album artwork for artists such as Bilal (In Another Life), Saul Williams (Encrypted and Vulnerable, The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!), B.L.A.C.K.I.E. (Last Night of Sleep) and Mike Ladd (Negrophilia). In 2023, he completed I Am Barbara Jordan, a permanent bronze monument at POST Houston honoring the pioneering civil rights leader and educator.