Ingrid Yuzly Mathurin is a self-taught, first-generation Haitian American figurative oil painter and muralist based in Manhattan's Lower East Side. Born in Nyack, New York, and raised in Florida, Mathurin creates expressive portraits and large-scale public works that center Black and Caribbean life through themes of identity, memory, culture, visibility, and joy.
Her practice moves fluidly between the intimacy of the studio and the scale of public space. Through bold color, textured surfaces, fashion, portraiture, and recurring visual elements, Mathurin creates work that honors cultural history while celebrating her subjects' individuality and humanity.
Her public art projects include commissions and collaborations with the City of Boston and BLKOUT Walls, Peacock’s Fight Night on the Atlanta BeltLine, ESPN and NFL Films in Dallas, Adult Swim and Living Walls, United Way of Greater Atlanta, Colin Kaepernick’s Know Your Rights Camp, and Bed-Stuy Walls in Brooklyn. Her murals also appear in Miami’s Wynwood district, Jacksonville, St. Croix, and other communities across the United States.
Mathurin’s work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, Montclair Art Museum, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, IPC Art Space in Miami, and Sovern LA in Los Angeles. Her artwork is held in the collections of Fulton County Arts & Culture, Joy Simmons, and Marlon Nichols, and her work appears on the cover of Jimmy’s Faith, published by Fordham University Press in 2024.
She is a 2024 Soho House Creative Fellow, a New York Foundation for the Arts Artist as Entrepreneur Fellow, a 2023 LeBasse Projects Grant recipient, and recipient of The Other Art Fair’s 2022 New Futures Award presented by Saatchi Art. From 2022 to 2023, she also participated in the Los Angeles Lakers’ In the Paint program.
Her residencies include Studio Kura in Japan, Ma House in East Hampton, Carrie Able Gallery in New York, Project Art in Los Angeles, and El Jardin in Miami.
Beyond her own practice, Mathurin is committed to mentorship, community engagement, and expanding visibility for emerging artists of color. Through painting and public art, she continues to create work that transforms space, preserves cultural memory, and lets Black and Brown
communities see themselves represented with beauty, dignity, and intention.