COURTNEY-GRACE’S TRACK RECORD IS STACKED: INDUSTRY-LEADING AGENCIES, INTERNET-BREAKING WORK AT PAPER MAGAZINE, CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED CAMPAIGNS, NUMEROUS AWARDS & COLLABS WITH SOME OF THE MOST CULTURE-DEFINING NAMES OF THE LAST DECADE. JUST ASK ZENDAYA. ISSA RAE.MEGAN THEE STALLION.

A rare mix of ease & electricity, Courtney-Grace is warm, confident, good-hearted & unmistakably charismatic. Known as someone who doesn’t simply observe culture but appreciates it through her own lived experience, culture is not just something to reference or put on a mood board. For Courtney-Grace, it’s something to honor, protect and responsibly pass on.

When she’s not being a critically-acclaimed Creative Director leading campaigns for Fortune 500 companies, she is building a rotating fine art exhibition & platform with the Museum of Nail Art (MoNA). MoNA uses nail art as a medium to celebrate Radical Black Beauty through a pop-culture lens. But it is not simply a museum about nail art. It’s an intentional initiative with one institutional thesis: Black women’s creative expression, innovation & imagination should never need permission to show up.

They just should.

Courtney-Grace is not asking for approval to call Black nail art fine art. She is recognizing what has always been true: the creative & cultural impact of Black & brown women has long shaped worlds far beyond the salon.

So why not turn that into forever?

Named ‘Culture Shifter of the Year’ by The CultureCon Collective and ‘Creative of the Year’ by The One Club & ADCOLOR, Courtney-Grace is also a passionate cultural critic who speaks & writes about the future of creativity, counterculture and how both can expand the way we see ourselves, each other and navigate the world.

At heart, Courtney-Grace is building things made to outlive the moment: cultural institutions, required reading, and future works headed to screens, bookshelves and a collective imagination near you.