yrécha gay Jheneall is a transdisciplinary artist born and raised between Kingston and Portmore, Jamaica, and currently based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Their practice moves between Caribbean and Gulf South landscapes and waterways, exploring Afro-Caribbean movement, ancestry, migration, gender, and memory.

Through installation, sound, (non)performance, print, photography, sculpture and film, Jheneall engages queerness as a somatic response to environment and landscape, treating water, and the natural world as collaborators in shaping identity and experience. Their practice centers vernacular materials; fiber drum barrels, bamboo, sugarcane, and textiles as interconnected knowledge systems and carriers of memory, labor, and diasporic exchange, offering alternative frameworks for understanding identity, survival, and belonging.

Previous works and collaborations include Black Brown Biennale, Alternate Roots and Black Discourse (UK). More recently they have participated in the group exhibition wata ways, at the Alabama Contemporary Arts Center in Mobile, LA and Refreshing America group exhibition at Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans). yrécha earned their MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio Arts at the University of New Orleans.