Aisha Tandiwe Bell is an American artist interested in the idea of "traps", fragmentation, and hyphenated identities through sculpture performance, video, sound, drawing, and installation. The process of mythmaking and ritual in her work call into question the categories of race, class, and sex and the societal ideas around them. Bell received her MS in Art and Design Education with a focus in Painting from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY in 1999 and an MFA in Ceramics from Hunter College, New York, NY in 2008. She received her BFA in Painting and Art Education from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY in 1998.