Yrécha Gay Jheneall is a transdisciplinary fluid artist born and raised in Jamaica. Between childhood and adolescence, their life oscillated between Kingston and Portmore. Now living in New Orleans, Louisiana, their creative practice considers Afro-Caribbean people's movement, memories, and homemaking rituals as practice toward a liberatory and archival consciousness. Trécha aims to signify collective and individual notions of belonging, nativity, and embodiment through various modalities of wata, video, sound, performance, and installation – clarifying the relationship between the body, water and the land, activated within rituals and processes of labor, survival, death, and living.

Previous works and collaborations include Black Brown Biennale, Alternate Roots and Black Discourse (UK) – they have exhibited in their home and local gallery spaces, The Nic and Uptown Laundry. More recently Trécha has participated in the group exhibition wata ways, at the Alabama Contemporary Arts Center in Mobile, LA and Le sanctuaire at UNO St. Claude Gallery. Currently Trécha a part of the Arts Council New Orleans’ group exhibition, How You Doin’ New Orleans at Merchant House. They earned their MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio Arts at the University of New Orleans and currently employed as the Artist-Centered Program Associate at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, LA.


IMAGE CREDIT: TAJA JANEL
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