Endia Beal, a Sony Artist of Imagery, is a North Carolina-based photographer, filmmaker, and author. Her photography and videos merge fine art with social justice to reveal often overlooked and unappreciated experiences unique to people of color.

Through her creative projects and signature mix of candor and wit, she takes audiences on journeys of discovery - helping shine the light on underrepresented people and showing us the ways in which prejudice and unconscious bias can creep into communication.  Her goal is to help us see each other, understand what we bring to any encounter, and find ways to move forward with more grace and light.

Endia’s work has captured the imagination of pop culture and academia, with features in The New York Times, NBC, Huffington Post, and National Geographic.  Endia has also been profiled in TIME magazine, the Financial Times Weekend Magazine, VICE, Essence, The Atlantic, and Newsweek. Her projects have been exhibited in prestigious institutions including the Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, New Orleans Museum of Art, and Aperture Foundation. Beal’s photographs are in private and public collections, such as The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the National Museum of African American History & Culture, in Washington, DC.

Endia is a fellow of the Center for Curatorial Leadership and she has completed residencies at Harvard Art Museums, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, and the McColl Center for Art + Innovation. She has received grants from the Magnum Foundation and the Open Society Foundation, among others. Beal holds a dual BFA in Art History and Studio Art with a concentration in photography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and she earned an MFA in Photography from Yale University School of Art.