Marlon F. Hall is an artist whose work is rooted in social practice and grown from anthropological listening. His life intention is to cultivate human potential while unearthing beauty from perceived community brokenness. He follows the lineage of Anthropologist and Artist Zora Neale Hurston by actively doing life with and deeply listening to communities he longs to create art with and for. As an art-making storyteller, he was recently named a Fulbright Specialist by the U.S. Department of Educational and Cultural Affairs, is a 2021 Tulsa Artist Fellow, was the Visual Anthropologist and Social Media Archivist for the Greenwood Art Project, a CBS Gayle King Morning Show subject matter expert, and a producing storyteller for the Emmy Award winning Migrant Kitchen. His digital photos and film curation is featured in Google Arts and Culture with a special spotlight of his exhibition linked to the coveted Google search bar. His latest project features one of his carefully curated Amnesia Therapy Salon Dinners in partnership with The British Council and The Kenya Pavilion at the 2022 The Venice Biennial.

Marlon activates socially engaged art-installations, large scaled photography, ethnographic films shaped as visual poems, and carefully designed salon dinners as human rights of passage as a community well and wheel of healing. He works to move communities from deeply refreshing places of hope and joy.

Today his work is rooted in Tulsa where he is tilling the soil with local creatives and community advocates to nourish the harvest of human possibility growing from the ashes of the 1921 Race Massacre. He believes Tulsa is not a graveyard but a garden. Gardens have decomposed elements of life in them as well but they move towards the destined growth cycle of life, death, and renewal. The growth he works to reveal in Tulsa harvests the resilient fruit of the human spirit that is the fire-proof and impenetrable legacy of Black Wall Street.