Autumn Samone(she/they), an interdisciplinary creative, uses their identities as a neurodivergent black person to explore tensions existing in, and pushing against, systems that are designed to contain an individual's state of being. By its nature, the constant flux between being inside and outside a system unfolds itself in the work.  Themes of absent place and porous confinement find themselves emerging as a mirror to lived experiences of internal conflict and eternal curiosity. Architectonic motifs, pseudo-spatial imagery and flesh adjacents serve as proxies that are used to invite and release the material conditions of the psyche’s tenuous existence.

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​Autumn was an Aunspaugh Fellow at the University of Virginia where they graduated with a B.A. in Studio Art in 2024. She is currently a Freeman Artist Residency fellow in Charlottlesville, Va.