Janiva Ellis (b. 1987, Oakland, California) received a BFA from California College of the Arts, Oakland, in 2012. She recently exhibited her work at the 2019 Whitney Biennial, New York, and the 2018 New Museum Triennial: Songs for Sabotage, New York. In 2018 Ellis was awarded the Rema Hort Foundation Emerging Artist Grant and the Stanley Hollander Award. Her works are held in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Rubell Museum, Miami; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami.