Karice Mitchell is a photo-based installation artist whose practice uses archives of Black erotic publications and digital manipulation to explore the representation of the Black female body in popular culture and pornography. Through scanning, enlarging and cropping, Mitchell creates works that hover between explicitness and illegibility. By re-contextualizing existing imagery, she reframes Black womanhood and sexuality beyond the constraints of the white gaze, patriarchy and historical constructs.

Karice Mitchell (b. 1996, Toronto, Canada) lives and works in Vancouver, Canada. Solo exhibitions include economy of pleasure, Silke Lindner, New York, US (2025); matter of becoming, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA (2024); Will to adorn, Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver, CA (2024); Intimacy Is, Burrard Arts Foundation, CA (2023); Wil Aballe Art Projects, Vancouver, CA (2023); and 1b, black legs, 52”, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, CA (2021). Recent two-person and group exhibitions include Together/Apart, Susan Hobbs, Toronto, CA (2022-23); Please be gentle, the plumb, Toronto, CA (2023); and Proof 28, Gallery 44, Toronto, CA (2022). Mitchell received her BFA at York University in 2019 and her MFA at the University of Waterloo in June 2021. She currently resides on the unceded and traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. Mitchell is a Black Scholar Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia.