Meet Sukenya Best!
Biography:
painter, dancer and published author.
Sukenya is an artist and art educator based in Richmond, Virginia, where
she has lived and worked for over 30 years. She brings more than 15 years of experience teaching art to youth and adults in both school and community-based settings. Her professional practice includes artist residencies, studio work, commissioned projects, competitive exhibitions, and ongoing participation in regional, national, and international art events.
Her work has been exhibited in a range of geographically diverse venues, including Artspace Gallery (Richmond, VA), Laxness Gallery (Vadodara, Gujarat, India), exhibitions with the Soul of Artists organization in Hawaii, the 2nd International 2D Online Art Exhibition, ArtFields in Lake City, South Carolina—a competitive regional exhibition—and her most recent solo exhibition at the Rawls Museum Arts in Courtland, Virginia. Her artwork has also been featured in several publications, including the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Phoenix Literary Art Magazine, Urban Views Weekly (Richmond, VA), and Studio Visit, a national and international arts publication.
In addition to her studio practice, Sukenya travels throughout Virginia as part of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts On the Road program. Where she travels with the Artmobile to present works from the museum’s permanent collection to communities across the state. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Virginia Commonwealth University.
