Billy Gérard Frank, born on the island of Petite Martinique, a sister Isle of Grenada, West Indies, is a visual artist, filmmaker, and curator whose research-based practice explores biomythography, autofiction, global contemporary issues, post-colonialism, and queer decoloniality. Drawing on archives, personal and collective histories, and memory, his work challenges and deconstructs normative narratives, using speculation and fabulation to create new imagery and propose counter-histories. He represented Grenada at the 59th La Biennale di Venezia (2022) and was part of the collective representing the Grenada National Pavilion at the 58th edition (2019).

His paintings and assemblages, films, and moving images have been exhibited and screened in group and solo shows at institutions and international art fairs, including the Brooklyn Museum, the Butler Institute of American Art, Yale University, and Frieze London. His works are also in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Farnsworth Art Museum, and the Butler Institute of American Art, among others. He is the recipient of numerous grants, including the Ford Foundation (Just Films), the Creative Capital grant (2024), and the Terra Foundation.

Frank is the founder and Creative Director of the Nova Frontier Film Festival & Lab. Over the past eight years, NFFF & LAB has evolved into a dynamic platform for bold experimentation, collaboration, and intercultural exchange, championing, incubating, and showcasing the work of filmmakers and artists from, and in dialogue with, the Global African Diaspora, the Middle East, and Latin America, and other communities of the Global Majority. He has served as a Lecturer in Directing and Projection Design at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale and has lectured at other institutions, including NYU, the School of Visual Arts, and York University, as well as serving as a keynote speaker, curator, consultant, and film programmer at international symposiums, film festivals, and institutions.

He moved to London as a teenager, where he began painting and exploring experimental video art and installation before relocating to New York to pursue further studies in studio art at ateliers such as the Art Students League of New York and the National Academy of Fine Arts. He later studied filmmaking and media arts at The New School for Social Research.

He is currently based in Berlin and New York.