Born in 1996 in Brooklyn, New York, Zoraye Cyrus is a multidisciplinary studio artist whose work uses her Afro Caribbean heritage to search through the complexities and aspects of the self and the other. Zoraye Cyrus received her BFA in Drawing and Illustration from the University of Central Florida in 2019, and MFA in Painting and Drawing from Temple University in 2023. Cyrus was recently awarded the South Florida Cultural Consortium Visual and Media Artist Fellowship in 2021.