Born and raised in New York City, Ava Tuitt is a visual artist and writer based in Brooklyn, New York. A graduate from Purchase College with her B.F.A in Painting + Drawing her work focuses on the intersections of human impulse, religion and pop culture. Constructing what she calls “gender instigations” her practice inserts and asserts the black trans body as a perpetual entity and explores the formation of both personal and collective identity.