Hello, I'm Orchid.

Orchid Sylvester is a multidisciplinary artist and designer navigating the intersections of analog, digital, and virtual spaces. While her practice investigates autonomy, mechanization of self, and the forensics of memory, Sylvester's explorations in fabrication and time-consciousness not only analogizes publisher and press to zeitgeist and propaganda, but renders the mimetics of her work as legitimized entities.

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Born from a Caribbean diaspora, Orchid Sylvester began life in a multifaceted climate. Conscious of the cultural and material visages from her childhood shifting with economic and environmental changes, Sylvester developed a fascination for visual art as a form of storytelling and memory. Her interest in sequential art and systems contextualizes the rhizomatc quality of her work. Sylvester became a 2x NAACP Act-SO Gold Medalist, exhibited in community-oriented galleries, showcased work the United States Capitol, and collaborated with local artists and collectives before graduating Arts High School in Newark, NJ. Such a basis was the foundation that enabled her to earn a BFA from The Cooper Union, where she earned the Full Tuition Merit Scholarship, Service to the School of Art Award, and the Rhoda Lubalin Fellowship for Graphic Design. Acclimated with art as praxis through workshops, event planning, independent instruction, and actively supporting socially engaged coalitions, she desired to explore its many disciplines in the form of design, fabrication, and craft without abandoning her interest in fine arts and illustration. Completing a well needed respite, Sylvester is continuing her artistic and community practice as a Teaching Artist at GlassRoots, Visual Arts Instructor at Arts High School, and pursuing the Design and Development of Digital Games MA program at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Besides giving time for personal projects, Orchid enjoys martial arts films, learning new things, and acquiring trinkets. Her favorite musicians are Massive Attack, Depeche Mode, and Gojira. She likes being indoors and outdoors, as she has a dream of having her own garden someday.