Billy Gérard Frank, born in Grenada, West Indies, is a multimedia artist, filmmaker, and Curator whose research and socially engaged art practice interrogate personal and collective historiography, 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 was a Venice Biennale Arte in the 59th La Biennale di Venezia (2022) and the 58th La Biennale di Venezia (2019), representing the Grenada National Pavilion.

His paintings, 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 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.