Ja’Tovia Gary

American artist and filmmaker Ja’Tovia M. GARY (1984) is currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York. She achieved her MFA in Social Documentary Filmmaking from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Through documentary film and experimental video art, she charts the ways structures of power shape our perceptions around representation, race, gender, sexuality and violence. Gary's work is part of The Whitney Museum’s permanent collection and has been exhibited at cultural institutions worldwide. She has received support from the Sundance Institute and The Jerome Foundation. In 2016, she participated in the Terra Foundation Summer Residency programme in Giverny, France. Gary was recently named one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Filmmaking of 2017. She is also a 2018-2019 Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University.