Hasani Claxton is an author, visual artist, and educator from St. Kitts, West Indies. His love of art began in the first grade, but he did not initially pursue an art career. He studied Business at Morehouse College (1999) and Law at Columbia University (2003). While working as an attorney in New York, he began taking evening classes at the School of Visual Arts. In 2005, he decided to pursue his passion full time and enrolled in Academy of Art University in San Francisco, receiving a BFA in Illustration in 2009 and an MFA in Studio Art from Towson University in 2017. He currently resides in Towson, MD.
He was as selected for the first cohort of the Brown Bookshelf-Highlights Foundation: Amplify Black Stories program in 2021 and received an Individual Artist Award in Literary Arts from the MD State Arts Council in 2022. His artwork has been exhibited throughout the US, as well as in the UK and the Caribbean, including the National Gallery of Jamaica. His work has appeared in Spectrum: Fantastic Art, Creative Quarterly, Caribe Art Magazine and Afropunk.com.
