Nesha Logan (b.1990, Chicago) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores ancestry, lineage, and the spiritual dimensions of Black womanhood. Working across collage, assemblage, and found image, she constructs layered visual languages that bridge the personal and the collective.
Drawing on Audre Lorde's understanding of poetry as "revelatory distillation of experience," Logan's work distills lived and inherited experiences into images that illuminate hidden truths while preserving mystery. Working with layered imagery and symbolic form, she transforms fragments of memory and archive into vessels for both reflection and possibility.
Her compositions privilege intuition, symbolism, and ritual, resulting in work that holds space for both memory and futurity. By honoring what has been inherited while imagining what can be transformed, she invites viewers to encounter the essences of experience—what can be carried forward, what can be healed, and what can be imagined anew.
Based in Chicago, Logan's work has been exhibited at Women Made Gallery and the Museum of Science and Industry, with pieces held in private collections.
EXHIBITIONS
2025
Sacred Motherhood, Women Made Gallery, Chicago, IL (Group)
Black Creativity, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL (Group)
2018
Is There A Mother in the House, Women Made Gallery, Chicago, IL (Group)
EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2025
Sequences, Iterations and Permutations, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2024
Printing on Press, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Intro to Linocut, Spudnik Press, Chicago, IL
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
2025 Workshop Facilitator, We Hear Art, ILA Creative Studio, Chicago, IL
COLLECTIONS
Held in Private Collection
RESEARCH & THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
Current research focuses on Black feminist thought, particularly the writings of bell hooks, Audre Lorde, and Alice Walker, investigating how visual practices can transform inherited patterns of emotional distance into new possibilities for intimacy and repair. Logan's work is guided by the concept of art as survival, resistance, and self-recovery.