yasiin bey

Born in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, yasiin bey is a multidisciplinary artist. He has been making hip-hop music since 1994, and first gained national attention in 1998 with the release of Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star, with Talib Kweli, and his subsequent solo album, Black on Both Sides, in 1999. Throughout his career, bey has balanced music with acting, appearing in films such as The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005), 16 Blocks (2006), Be Kind Rewind (2008), and Bamboozled (2000), among others.

bey’s audiovisual installation, NEGUS, has been presented internationally at venues including The Third Line, Dubai, United Arab Emirates (2021); Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY, USA (2019); Art Basel Hong Kong (2019) after its debut at Marrakech Riad, Marrakech, Morocco, in collaboration with artist Hassan Hajjaj.