BIO
Danté Maurice is a multi-disciplinary artist creating visual and audio works that primarily employ oratorical voice recordings, digital video, and 35mm film. His practice centers around the human experience, mental health, American Black culture, and its influence on both the Black community and broader society. Danté produces immersive sensory experiences that feel both intimate and expansive by weaving visceral oratory pieces with collages of still and moving images, continuously honoring his roots while expanding the language of contemporary Black storytelling.
Raised in Piscataway, New Jersey, Danté Maurice’s artistic journey was shaped early by the creative energy within his family, the rhythms of hip hop culture, and his participation in programs like the NAACP’s ACT-SO competition. Surrounded by storytellers and inspired by family photographs that lined his grandmother’s walls, Danté developed a reverence for visual archives and oral traditions.
His first camera came as a tool to share his perspective in the early digital era. This impulse to document and connect led to his early work, including #UCYPHE, a live event celebrating love, community, and representation through shared experience. Equally formative were the teachings of the Baptist church, where oratory carried a weight and power that deeply shaped Danté’s understanding of voice as art. Together, these influences, family archives, oral traditions, hip hop culture, and the digital landscape, converged to make film, photography, and oratory his primary vessels for storytelling.
Through his company For Struggling Creatives, Danté has collaborated with a range of organizations and institutions including Good Black Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Chanel Inc., Newark Museum of Art, Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, the Newark Opportunity Youth Network (including My Brother’s Keeper Newark), Hycide Magazine, and more. His company has also constructed a mobile studio housed within a 17-foot box truck, offering studio services to creatives who have historically lacked access to traditional creative spaces.