Helina Metaferia is an Ethiopian-American interdisciplinary artist working across collage, assemblage, video, performance, and social engagement. Her work incorporates archival research, embodied practices, and dialogical studies, supporting often overlooked narratives of intersectional identities.

Metaferia’s solo exhibitions include Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA (2024-2025); RISD Art Museum, Providence, RI (2022-2023); and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (2021-2022). Her work was included in the 2023 Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates. Group exhibitions include Blaffer Museum of Art, Houston, TX (2024); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (2023); The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD (2023); CFHill, Stockholm, Sweden (2021); and Modern Art Museum Gebre Kristos Desta Art Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (2019). Her work is in institutional collections including Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; and KADIST, Paris, France.

Metaferia received her MFA from Tufts University’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been written about in publications including The New York Times, Financial Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Studio Museum in Harlem Magazine, ArtNews, and ArtForum. She is an Assistant Professor at Brown University in the Department of Visual Art.

Helina Metaferia was born in 1983. She lives and works in New York City.