Jamal Cyrus is a multidisciplinary Houston-based artist. Cyrus’s conceptual and research-driven practice draws on the creative strategies of collage and assemblage, and explores the evolution of African American identity within Black political movements and the African diaspora. He is engaged with an aesthetic practice that aims to transform the most mundane materials into objects with rich, densely packed networks of meaning and purpose. A founding and continued member of the pioneering collective, Otabenga Jones & Associates, Cyrus actively engages with the cultural cross-pollination and hybridity across and between historical eras, cultures, and events.