He lives and works in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is an assistant professor in the school of the arts at McMaster University.
He has published four books and in 2020 co-edited (with Rodney Diverlus and Sandy Hudson) Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada, a bestselling collection of reflections on the Black Lives Matter movement in Canada.
[7] Ware began his PhD in the faculty of environmental studies at York University in 2014 and successfully defended this doctoral thesis in 2021.
[9] Ware's work explores social justice frameworks and Black activist culture through performance, large scale drawing, installations, paintings and dance.
At the 2019 Biennial he created Antarctica, a performance and interactive installation about white supremacy and climate change and Ancestors, Do You Read Us: Dispatches From The Future, an 8 channel video work created with Mishann Lau and set in 2072 in a world where Black and Indigenous people have survived climate change and race wars.
[13] For 17 years, Ware was the host of Resistance on the Sound dial, a community radio show on 89.5 CIUT FM.
In the show he combined activist music with political interviews and conversations with activists and artists, such as Octavia E. Butler, New Zealand transgender MP Georgina Beyer, Ursula Rucker, Tumi & the Volume and Bob Moses from SNCC.
for 19 years in order to create events like the trans and black stage at Pride called Blockorama.
Ware has stated that his intent is to dismantle white supremacy within the arts and diversify the museum field.
The mediums include furniture, sheets, paint cans and various living space setting-like props.
The piece was commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art with the RBC Emerging Canadian Artists Program providing support.