Demetri Broxton is an Oakland, California–based mixed-media artist whose work explores memory, ancestry, and cultural identity through photography, textiles, beadwork, and embellishment. Drawing from family archives and public historical images, he transforms photographs into richly layered works that honor Black diasporic histories and acts of cultural preservation. Through intricate craft and profound intention, his work reclaims the past, not as a static archive but as an active force that reshapes the present and empowers futures defined by liberation, connection, and ancestral power.
His work has been exhibited nationally and is held in the collections of the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the de Young Museum, the Crocker Art Museum, the Norton Museum of Art, and the Monterey Museum of Art. Broxton is the executive director of Root Division in San Francisco and previously led education programs at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) for more than a decade. Through both his studio practice and educational work, he is committed to expanding access to the arts and fostering the next generation of creative practitioners.
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