Nasir Anthony Montalvo (b. 1999) is an experimental memory worker. Montalvo’s work challenges the
erasure of Black and queer people from our historical record through archival study, obsolete and
emergent technology, popular education, and the written word.

Montalvo’s art and archival research has been exhibited locally and nationally, published in Syllabus,
Sixty Inches From Center, The Advocate, and KC Studio, and collected by the Harvard Radcliffe
Institute. Their work is referenced in curricula at Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University and
Pomona College. Montalvo is founder of {B/qKC}: a community archive of Black queer midwestern
history, and has been awarded fellowships with The Opportunity Agenda, Diaspora Solidarities Lab, and
Gray Area in addition to their 2024-2026 studio residency at Charlotte Street.

Montalvo is queer, Afro-Boricua, and from Kissimmee, Florida.
They received their BS in Business & Technology from Stevens Institute of Technology.