Danielle Rowe (b. 1994) is a Jamaican-American multimedia artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her practice explores the intersection of color, energy, and elemental forces through vibrant, layered compositions that serve as portals into the Black experience of past, present, and future. Drawing on her heritage, ancestral memory, and a deep reverence for the natural world, Rowe builds imagined ecosystems where abstraction, political consciousness, and speculative futures converge in pursuit of liberation.

Utilizing natural materials like sediment and plant life in her work, she grounds abstract forms in earthly memory. She often blends acrylic paint with sand, rainwater, and tree bark, creating tactile compositions humming with spiritual and ecological presence.

Rowe’s paintings invite viewers into a realm of Black joy, resistance, and futures yet imagined. To fully engage with her work, she invites the viewer to be transported to the dream space —a world of boundless possibility. Within it, her works evoke themes of identity, belonging, and transformation.

Rowe is the founder of Black Queer Art (BQA), a virtual gallery amplifying the voices of Black and Queer artists as agents of cultural change. She received her BA in African American Studies from Fordham University in 2012.

Her work is currently on view at Misha’s Flower Shop in Bushwick, Brooklyn, and she is working on a new exhibition in collaboration with Loudmouth Records in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, New York, Fall 2025.