Brooke Burnside was born and raised in Nassau, Bahamas. She earned her BA in Film from Vassar College and her MA in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University. She recently graduated from the Masters of Architecture program at the University of Texas at Austin and is now a Designer at a small architecture firm in Austin, TX. Burnside has shown work in Nassau, Bahamas, at various galleries in Austin, TX, as well as at the Spring Break Art show in New York City. She was a recipient of the 2020 Big Medium LINE residency and also participated in the 2020 Willow House residency for Black Artists in Terlingua, TX. Through a variety of media, Burnside's work explores geography, race, memory, and the transgressive potential in abstract documentation.

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