Houston Eugene Conwill (April 2, 1947 – November 14, 2016) was an American multidisciplinary artist known best for large-scale public sculptural installations.

It was here, and in his first student exhibition in 1971, that Conwill started making works with canvases stretched over pyramid shapes, a motif that would recur throughout his artistic career.

Houston pursued his master's degree from University of Southern California[4] and Kinshasha worked at curator of Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House, where they lived for two years.

In 1989, Conwill produced an installation piece for the Museum of Modern Art's series, Projects, called The Cakewalk Humanifesto: A Cultural Libation.

An etched-glass frame, reminiscent of the rose window at Chartres, was etched with words and maps, projecting patterns onto the marble floor of the gallery.

[6] Perhaps Conwill's most prominent work is Rivers, his terrazzo and brass floor design at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Each circle is divided into four equal sections with inlaid lines reminiscent of Yowa,[9] the Kongo cosmogram for the continuity of human life through reincarnation.