Unique Fair is a professional  Fine Artist Oil Painter from Rochester, NY who seeks to use his skill set as an artist and activist to empower and encourage people to be the change they wish to see in the world.

As an artist, Fair creates work that engages with the ideas of oppression, liberation, and the friction between the two.

Fair’s body of work centers the human figure and portraiture, where he finds inspiration to explore the human condition, and how it is affected by struggle, tragedy, and joy. As a practice, the artwork prioritizes the documentation of identities of people from underrepresented communities. As a Black Queer man, Fair hopes his work empowers others, and gives disenfranchised communities voices on their own terms, not the terms projected onto them.

In essence, Fair’s artwork seeks to grapple with our struggles toward a fair and just world, including depictions of our attempts, our shortcomings, our failures, and our successes.

 Growing up, he developed a passion for community organizing, and after high school, Unique attended the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and received a BFA in Illustration. It was there where his interest in politics, community organizing, and art combined into an interest in the provocative power of painting as a means of activism. This vision has led Unique to create artwork that focuses on the themes of oppression, liberation, and the friction between. Fair is a recent MFA graduate from the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he has instructed undergraduate painting, printmaking, and drawing classes.

Recently, his achievements have included his artwork being collected by the Memorial Art Gallery, The Cary Collection, and The Mercer Gallery. Additionally, Fair was recently a recipient of the Rochester Contemporary Arts Centers Artist Residency Program and the Print Club of Rochester's BIPOC residency. Additionally, Fair's artwork has been accepted into a number of exhibitions. This includes the 67th and 68th Finger Lakes Exhibitions at the Memorial Art Gallery, the Facing Forward Exhibition at the Main Street Arts Gallery in Clifton Springs, and the Queering Democracy Exhibition at the Rochester Contemporary Arts Center. As well, Fair has held solo exhibitions, Innermost at the Mercer Gallery, and Beyond the Overture at the Little Theatre in Rochester NY.