April Bey grew up in the Caribbean (Nassau, Bahamas) and now resides and works in Los Angeles, California. Her interdisciplinary work is an introspective and social critique of American and Bahamian popular culture, immigration, contemporary pop culture feminism, generational theory, social media, Afrofuturism, and race. She received her BFA in Drawing in 2009 from Ball State University and her MFA in Painting in 2014 at California State University, Northridge in Los Angeles. Bey is in the permanent collection of the California African American Museum, the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, and Baha Mar in Nassau, Bahamas. She has exhibited internationally in biennials NE7, NE8, and NE9 in The Bahamas, and in the United States, Italy, Spain, and Ghana.