Born, raised, and based in Brooklyn, NY, Jaiquan Fayson is a visual artist whose oil paintings and sketch portraits attempt to establish an empathetic connection to people in his environment. While incarcerated and in solitary confinement as a young adult, Jaiquan used his ability to draw as a means ofself-directed therapy and a tool for introspection. Seeking to break his cycle of recidivism, Jaiquan earned the Silas H Rhodes Scholarship for Artistic and Academic achievement before completing his BFA (2015) in Illustration at The School of Visual Arts. In 2020 Jaiquan participated in HBO’s O.G, an art show commemorating their revolutionary prison film. He was featured in Drawing Freedom, a short documentary released in 2021 about art as a means of therapy, produced by Motto Pictures for the Healthy US Collaborative. Additionally, in 2021 he was ...