Nana Kumi is a queer multidisciplinary ritual artist, African cosmological practitioner, and independent researcher from Natchez, Mississippi. Her work explores Black consciousness and African Indigenous Technology as a form of medicine for spiritually induced memory fractures that impact corporeality. She utilizes photography, installation, ritual, performance, and film to transmit healing between Africa and her diasporas.

Nana Kumi is a Mississippi-based artist whose work interrogates systems of violence that separate Black and Brown communities from the land. Her practice reflects the beauty, horror, and ingenuity of the American Black South, highlighting its parallels with rural life in the global South. Kumi challenges narratives that portray rural Mississippi as a site of destitution, instead emphasizing its fertile soil and the neglected processes of grief that persist amid ecological, systemic, and racial violence. She has received support from the National Performance Network’s Southern Artists for Social Change (Surdna Foundation), the Documentary & Storytelling Initiative, and the Andy Warhol & Mississippi Center for Cultural Production TBD Fund. Her multidisciplinary project Asaasa Yaa (soil.) was featured in The National Black Food & Justice Alliance’s group exhibition “Black Sanctuaries” at the Smith-Robertson Museum (2025) and in the Land Food and Freedom Journal (2025). Kumi is an alumna of the 2024/2025 cohort of Sipp Culture’s Rural Performance Production Lab.