Jarena Marie Lee (She/They) is a Black Queer American interdisciplinary artist based in Katarokwi Kingston, Ontario. With a background in Fine arts and Theatre Performance, Lee’s works onstage, on screen and on canvas are calls to the intersections and beauties of the Black Queer American and Canadian experience. Through mixed media portraiture and performance, Lee centers the Black feminine, and the politics of unapologetic being, as an act of resistance. 

 

Lee is co-creator of the Best Budz Collective with writer, Sarra Mirghani.Their collective explores the possibilities of imagining futures of the Black Queer Diaspora through performance, film and visual arts. Best Budz work highlights the complexities that exist within identity and abstract them into the realms of satire and the absurd. 

 

Lee is not only multidisciplinary with media but also through collaboration.  Their work highlights themes of identity, community, connection and discovering ancestral histories as pathways of envisioning liberated futures.