Sage Ni'ja
Whitson

Sage Ni’Ja Whitson (they/them) is an international award-winning multihyphenate noted by Brooklyn Magazine as a culture influencer and the Park Avenue Amory as a “trailblazing XR artist to know”. They are a 2025 DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Visual Arts Fellow, Herb Alpert/MacDowell Fellow, United States Artist Fellow, Creative Capital and two-time “Bessie” Awardee who engages anti-disciplinarity through a critical intersection of the sacred and conceptual in science, technology, and art. Their multi-form works on dark matter and dark energy, via The Unarrival Experiments, have been commissioned across the world and media, including recently at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Black Speculative Arts Movement – Denver, a forthcoming solo exhibition at the California African American Museum, and a manuscript to be published in 2025 by Wesleyan University Press, Transtraterrestrial: Dark Matter and Black Divinities.