Iyanna (b. 2000, Yonkers, NY) is a Bronx-based painter whose work explores the emotional healing of ancestral and individual trauma, with a specific focus on Black identity as it relates to mental health, memory, and survival. Working primarily in latex paint—a material she was drawn to for its accessibility and vibrancy—Iyanna has developed a signature style rooted in texture, abstraction, and spiritual storytelling.

Her paintings serve as both personal testimony and collective reflection, navigating the rupture and repair that define the Black experience in a society shaped by structural inequality. Through recurring motifs—such as punctured canvases that represent fragmentation, memory, and reformation—Iyanna honors the nonlinear process of healing and the reclamation of self.

Deeply informed by her own lived experience, her work challenges the erasure of generational pain while offering a visual space for transformation. She views painting as both process and portal: a method of alchemizing trauma into resilience and reconnection.

Iyanna is currently pursuing an Associate’s degree in Fine Art at LaGuardia Community College, after previously attending NYU, where her work was exhibited in multiple student and community-centered exhibitions, including Gallatin Galleries, NYU Langone’s Mercer St. showcase, Bronx Art Space, and the Langston Hughes House.