Flor Khan is a New York–based mixed-media collage artist. Her work moves through the echoes of ancestral histories and migration, reshaping what we carry forward and what is left behind. Through collage, photo-transfer, and installation, she weaves together fragments of family archives, colonial imagery, and cartography to reimagine how memory lives within the body, challenging the ways power and geopolitics are imposed upon personal histories of belonging, migration, and culture. Each piece becomes both offering and excavation—an attempt to make visible the stories that have been silenced, displaced, or forgotten.
Shaped by her Mexican-Guyanese lineage, her practice is an act of repair. She gathers what remains of her family history and of a world shaped by time, including portraits, textiles, and historical archives, reassembling them into new constellations of meaning.
Attuned to migratory histories obscured within the legacy of indenture and largely lost to the collective record, her work traces what has been fragmented or erased. Grief, decay, and regrowth coexist within her process, reflecting cycles of loss and renewal that shape diasporic identity and evolving forms of belonging. Rather than sever the self from history, she works within its continuum, making meaning from migration as both movement across land and water, and as something carried and lived within the body.
Exhibitions
2026 — Currents, Currents: Immigration Stories — Oyate Gallery, The Oyate Group
2026 — Handmade Interventions — All Street Gallery, All Street Collective
2026 — SHADE: Women in the Heights — NoMAA Gallery, Northern Manhattan Art Alliance
2026 — Words — Yonkers Arts, Yonkers Arts Alliance
2025 — What the Water Gave Me — Studio Q, Brooklyn Arts Collaborative
2025 — Rituales de Resiliencia — Flushing Town Hall, Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts
2025 — Survival and Sustenance — NoMAA Gallery, Northern Manhattan Art Alliance
2025 — Where We Land — Dirección de Cultura Dominicana del Exterior, Dominican Ministry of Culture