Billy Gérard Frank
2026
We are excited to announce that Billy Gérard Frank received the Thami Mnyele Foundation residency award and will stay in Amsterdam for 3 months, until 3 July. He was selected in collaboration with our fellow Richard Kofi, from the Museum of Black Futures.
Billy Gérard Frank, born in Grenada, West Indies, is an Artist and Filmmaker whose research-based practice interrogates personal and collective issues related to race, memory, exile, global politics, post-colonial, and queer decoloniality. His work challenges and deconstructs normative narratives, using speculation and new imagery to suggest counter-histories. He represented Grenada at the 59th La Biennale di Venezia (2022) and was also part of the collective that represented the island at the 58th La Biennale di Venezia (2019).
Frank is also the co-founder of the Nova Frontier Film Festival & Lab, which showcases and incubates the work of filmmakers and artists from and about the Global African Diaspora, the Middle East, and Latin America. He is a Lecturer in Directing and Design at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale and has lectured at institutions such as NYU, the School of Visual Arts, and York University.
Billy Gérard Frank
Richard Kofi