Warith Taha is a visual artist from Oakland, CA. Working primarily through the medium of painting, Warith creates work that addresses his Black queer relationship to time, space, and material. Warith’s practice draws from a diverse field of research ranging from abstraction to 90’s Black Inches Magazines, family photos to found domestic objects, self-portraiture to autobiography. These points of interest become anchors in his ongoing exploration of Black queer bodily visibility and absence. Central to Warith’s work is an imagining into how painting can be used as a tool of resistance against historical erasure and inaccuracy.

Warith received his M.F.A from Tyler School of Art and Architecture in Philadelphia, PA.

Taha’s work has been exhibited in shows at Sean Kelly Gallery (NYC, NY), M+B Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), and Hiestand Gallery (Oxford, OH). Taha was the 2020 awardee of Headland Center for the Art’s Tournesol Award and the 2021/2022 NXTHVN Fellowship Award.