Akea Brionne (b. 1996; New Orleans, LA) was recently named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 in 2024 in the Art & Culture category. Her work has recently been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY; the Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; the California African American Museum, CA; Mississippi Museum of Art, MS; Wellin Museum of Art, NY; Cranbrook Museum of Art, MI; and Library Street Collective, MI, among others. Brionne’s work is in the collections of Mississippi Museum of Art, MS; the Cranbrook Museum of Art, MI; Wellin Museum of Art, NY; the Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; and Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, CA; among others. She was the youngest artist included in the California African American Museum group exhibition, A Movement in Every Direction:Legacies of the Great Migration, which was named by the New York Times as one of the best shows of 2022. She lives and works between Detroit and Kansas City.