Art + Artists

Njaime Njie creates photographs, collages, and installations that trace the connections between place and memory, with a specific focus on the contours of Black life within Black landscapes. Drawing from oral histories and archives, she documents how systemic forces shape everyday experience while honoring joy, beauty, and resistance. Her work bridges past and future, inviting viewers to imagine freer worlds.

Njaimeh Njie is a multimedia artist. Working across photography, film, collage, and installation, her practice centers everyday Black people, narratives, and landscapes. Focusing on how the past shapes the present, Njie’s work utilizes archival research, oral history collection, as well as nonfiction writing. She has spearheaded projects across Western Pennsylvania, and collaborated on documentary projects in communities in Jackson, Mississippi, Paris, France, and Northern Ireland.

Njie’s artwork is included in the permanent collections of Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) and Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, she has presented in spaces including TEDxPittsburgh Women and Harvard University, and her work has been featured in publications including CityLab and Fraction Magazine. She earned her B.A in Film and Media Studies from Washington University in St. Louis in 2010.

I make photos, films, collages, and installations about Black life within Black landscapes. Inspired by my mom’s role as our family historian and my dad’s work as a photographer, I use research, oral histories, text, and archives to inform my image based work. The stories I tell interrogate how systemic violence has shaped everyday life for Black communities, but also explore how we have found love, beauty, and each other in the midst of great struggle. Part memory and part imagination, my work is defined by the continuum of past, present, and future. It invites people to remember what’s been, to see what is, and to imagine what a free future can be.