Bio

lance minto-strouse (b. 2000) in Miami, Florida and lives and works in his hometown. Of Afro-Chinese, Anglo, and Native American ancestry, Minto-Strouse received a BFA from New World School of the Arts (2026). Selected solo exhibitions include “Still Change” (2025, Yale Norfolk, Norfolk, Connecticut). Selected group exhibitions include “Echos of Life, Fragments of Reality” (2025, Edge Zone, Miami, Florida) and “Culturehaus” (2024, SOHO House, Miami, Florida). Minto-Strouse received the Yale Norfolk School of Art Fellowship (2025), the Artist Engagement Fund from the National Performance Network (2025), the Catalyst Award from Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator (2026), Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator Artist in residency Suriname (2026)

Artist Statement 

Every landscape remembers. A demolished house, a pair of worn sneakers, a stack of concrete blocks, or an FBI file can reveal the lives, labor, and histories of the people who passed through them. I am interested in these traces and the ways they continue to shape the present. My work explores ephemeral landscapes, revealing what I think of as the architecture of the people, the memory communities leave behind in the built environment.

Working with cardboard, concrete, house paint, Xeroxes, FBI documents, books, and found objects, I collect, layer, and remix fragments of archives and everyday life. Influenced by sampling, I allow each material to retain its history while creating new relationships between memory, place, and culture.

Through installation, sculpture, drawing, painting, and photography, I build environments that bring together architecture, archival research, and everyday objects as spaces for remembrance. Candles, libations, and temporary interventions transform familiar materials into sites for reflection, asking how landscapes preserve the stories of communities long after buildings disappear and people move on. My work invites viewers to slow down, look closely, and recognize that history continues to unfold through the places we inhabit.

Photo by Sabrina Fazai