Los Angeles–based artist Lauren Halsey creates immersive installations and graphic collages that celebrate and archive Black cultural expression while resisting gentrification. Her work draws on local vernacular—flyers, murals, signage—and ancient Egyptian and Afrofuturist aesthetics, merging past, present, and speculative futures.

Halsey has exhibited internationally, including we still here, there at MCA Los Angeles (2018), Too Blessed 2 be Stressed! at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2019), and a 2023 site-specific installation at the Met Roof Garden. In 2019, she founded Summaeverythang Community Center to support Black and Brown empowerment in South Central LA.