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American visual artist

Angelbert Metoyer (born in July in Houston, Texas) (AN-gel-bər MUH-twy-ər) is an American visual artist on the forefront of afrofuturism.^[2][3] Metoyer began his artistic career through Rick Lowe's Project Row Houses in Houston, Texas and held his first solo exhibition there in He subsequently moved to Atlanta to study drawing and painting at the Atlanta College of Art.

Although a bit of a nomad having lived in various parts of the world, Metoyer currently lives in Houston and Rotterdam.^[4]

Metoyer's art explores memory and social history through the lenses of science, philosophy, and religion. He works in various media, including drawing, painting, installation, and sound.^[5] He appropriates unusual art materials, which he calls "excrements of industry," that include coal, glass, debris, oil, tar, mirrors, and gold dust.^[6][7]

Metoyer's work is in the permanent collections o