Triton Mobley is a practice-based researcher in new media whose praxis culls together critical making methodologies across speculative industrial design, jugaad/ghetto hacktivism, and programmable fabrications—engendering public reexamination. His art objects are critical of the relationship between class, labor and emergent technologies — using digital media as a means of archiving narratives from communities on the margins. Triton’s interventionist works, guerrilla performances, and academic research has been presented at CURRENTS Virtual Festival, Geidai Games at Tokyo University of the Arts, Art Basel Miami, (IM)POSSIBILITY conference at Harvard, Taboo – Transgression – Transcendence in Vienna, and Limit No Limit at Sorbonne Université. Triton has recently contributed essays to Techniques Journal and the Pratt Institute’s Pounds Per Inch photo journal on Infrastructural Architectures: Land [Dis]Trust and Deep.Fake.Blackness respectively. He was a 2024 Rhode Island Foundation’s MacColl-Johnson Fellowship finalist.
PRO.NIGGA. 2025
Horween Leather, Mahogany, Archival Image, Laser Etching 84″ x 36″
Additional Info
Artist Website: tritonmobley.com
Part of Growing the NetWorks
This artist was selected by a past NetWorks Rhode Island participant as part of Growing the NetWorks — a 2025 exhibition presented by WaterFire Providence, at the WaterFire Arts Center, celebrating peer-nominated artists from across Rhode Island. Learn more at waterfire.org/growingthenetworks
Highlighting the work of selected artists who have played vital roles in shaping the contemporary visual arts community in Rhode Island. This collection of brief video portraits provides a window into the lives, practices, and cultural contributions of professional artists.
