Billy Gérard Frank born in Grenada, West Indies is Multi-Media Artist and Filmmaker. Frank's research-based practices interrogate personal issues dealing with race, exile, memory, global politics, and post-colonial and queer decoloniality, challenging normative discourses around them while imagining and creating counter-histories. His works have been exhibited and screened in group and solo shows in museums and institutions like Brooklyn Museum (2020); Butler Institute Of American Art, and international film festivals like the Berlinale, and Sundance, and are also in several private collections and institutions like the National Academy Museum of Fine Arts and Design, Farnsworth Art Museum, among others. He represented Grenada in the 59th La Biennale di Venezia (2022) and was also one of the artists in the collective who represented the island at the 58th La Biennale di Venezia (2019). He is a recipient of many grants, including the Ford Foundation Grant for his La Biennale Di Venezia project (2022) and recipient of the Creative Capital Award in 2024, “Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact.”

Frank is also one the founders of the Nova Frontier Film Festival & Lab which showcases and incubates the works of filmmakers and artists from and about the Global African Diaspora, The Middle East, and Latin America, and is also a Lecturer in Directing and Design in the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale and has lectured at universities like NYU, the School of Visual Arts, and York University.

He moved to London as a teenager, where he began painting and exploring experimental video art and installation before moving to New York to pursue further studies in studio art at ateliers like The Art Students League of New York, and The National Academy of Fine Arts and studied under the American abstract expressionist and realist painter John Hultberg, and was John's studio assistant for 5 years where he was introduced to artists like Robert Rauschenberg. He continued his studies (MA) in filmmaking and media arts at The New School for Social Research.

He lives between NY, Grenada, and Paris.