About
Danielle Scott
Danielle Scott is a mixed-media assemblage artist who grew up in Jersey City, New Jersey. She holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts (2001), where she studied under the late great African American artist Jack Whitten. Her work expresses politically and socially charged messaging, exploring the intertwining relationships between social justice, equality, human and women's rights, police brutality, femininity, and culture.
As a woman, a mother, and a self-identified lesbian, Afro-Cuban, Polish Jew in America, Danielle's perspective has been shaped with merciless hands yet has not been tainted by apathy. She creates using photo montage, found objects, paint, raw materials, old books, and collage.
Her work has been acquired by The Newark Museum of Art, Museo Casa de Africa, author Roxanne Gay, the Weissman Family Collection, Whoopi Goldberg, Marlon Nichols, Ken "Duro" Ifill, and Nikole Hannah-Jones. She has exhibited internationally at the Havana Biennial (2024), Africa Week in Paris, and throughout the United States.
In 2025, Danielle was the subject of a PBS American Masters documentary — Danielle Scott: Ancestral Call — and was nominated for a 56th NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Short Documentary.
"I want my work to live on, way past my time on the universe. I want people to say, 'She was telling us something and making us aware of something, and she wasn't afraid to do it.'"
