Texas Isaiah is a first-generation Black Indigenous American photographer and contemporary artist born in Brooklyn, New York.

He attended college for a short time and dropped out after discovering that formal education wasn't a proper fitting.

The intimate works he creates center the possibilities that can emerge by inviting individuals to participate in the photographic process.

He is attempting to shift the power dynamics rooted in photography to display different ways of accessing support in one's own body.

[8] He is one of the 2018 grant recipients of Art Matters, a 2019 recipient of the Getty Images: Where We Stand Creative Bursary grant, a 2020-21 artist in residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem, a 2020 Clio Awards Silver winner for visual curation on Being Seen Podcast, and a finalist for the 2022 Artadia Los Angeles Award.