Eden Seifu Champions People of Color in Her Surrealist Paintings

Eden Seifu is a contemporary artist of Ethiopian descent who specializes in figurative paintings that depict dynamic portraits of people of color set against surrealist landscapes. Her featuring POC, especially Black people, in her work is an attempt to elevate the visibility of minorities while subverting societal traditions of excluding these subjects in the canons of art-making and fine art. Seifu draws inspirations from romance novels, Russian symbolist paintings as well as illuminated manus...