Billy Gérard Frank, born in Grenada, West Indies, is an Artist, Filmmaker, Writer, and Curator whose research-based practice interrogates personal and collective issues related to race, memory, exile, global politics, post-colonialism, and queer decoloniality. His work challenges and deconstructs normative narratives, using speculation and new imagery to suggest counter-histories. He represented Grenada at the 59th La Biennale di Venezia (2022) and was also part of the collective that represented the island at the 58th La Biennale di Venezia (2019).

His mixed-media artworks, films, and video installations 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 support from the Ford Foundation (Just Films). In 2024, he was awarded a Creative Capital grant for a new five-part film project in development, loosely inspired by Édouard Glissant’s Poetics of Relation.

Frank is the founder and creative director of the Nova Frontier Film Festival & Lab, which showcases and incubates the work of filmmakers and artists from and about the Global African Diaspora, the Middle East, and Latin America—the global majority. He is a Lecturer in Directing and Design at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale and has lectured at institutions including NYU, the School of Visual Arts, and York University, as well as serving as a keynote speaker at international symposiums.

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.