Ajmal 'Mas Man' Millar 

Ajmal ‘Mas Man’ Millar was born in 1986 in Brooklyn, NY and is a self taught contemporary visual artist and MAS MAN (carnival costume designer).

His work includes MAS, mixed –media collage paintings, repurposed material, sculptural metal, performance, photography which interrogates notions of cultural heritage, sexual and gender identity as a first generation African –American black queer man born to Trinidadian immigrants. 

In 1996, he participated in the opening/closing Ceremonies of the Olympic Games, where he performed in a costume designed and made specially by his role model and iconic costume designer Trinidadian Peter Minshall.

Ajmal graduated with a B.A. in English from Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA and studied at The Art Students League of New York in 2012.

He has exhibited costumes and other art works in a range of spaces including alternative spaces, club venues, carnival, ‘pop up’-events locally and regionally. 

In Autumn of 2019, Ajmal relocated to Chicago and entered the Masters of Fine Art program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.