Work № 14 — 2024
Obsidian Hours
A meditation on time as a material. Cast volcanic glass and 24k leaf, the piece holds light the way memory holds a name — partially, and on its own terms.
Culture · Collective · Est. 2019
Onyx
The future is cast in black.
Manifesto
№ 001
The Casting
The Casting
We do not ask for a seat. We forge the table — in obsidian, in gold, in code. Onyx is a collective for those who build the worlds that should exist. We make culture that refuses.
Black art is not a moment to be observed; it is the foundation being poured. We gather painters, architects, sound designers and futurists under one rule — make the thing that outlives the room. Restraint is our discipline. Gold is our proof.
0Resident artists
0Cities reached
0In residence
0Artist-owned
The Residents
Featured
Featured
Artists
Six practitioners shaping the visual grammar of a Black future — across pigment, polygon and frequency.
The Exhibition
Selected
Selected
Works
Work № 21 — 2025
Frequency of Return
A 40-minute sound installation built from field recordings across three continents, folded into a single waveform. To stand inside it is to hear a diaspora resolve into one breath.
Work № 27 — 2025
Cast in Black
The collective's anchor commission: a speculative pavilion designed for a city that does not yet exist. Drawn entirely in the negative — what is removed defines what remains.
Open Call
Apply to the collective.
We open the doors twice a year to artists, designers and futurists who build what should exist. Submissions are read by residents — not algorithms.
Next intake — Autumn 2026 · 148 residents and counting