Marlon F. Hall is a sculptor, filmmaker, and public artist whose work is rooted in social practice and grown from anthropological listening. His life intention is to cultivate human potential while unearthing beauty from perceived community brokenness. He follows the lineage of Anthropologist and Artist Zora Neale Hurston by actively doing life with and deeply listening to communities he longs to create art with and for. As an art-making storyteller, he was recently named a Fulbright Specialist by the U.S. Department of Educational and Cultural Affairs, is a 2021 Tulsa Artist Fellow, was the Visual Anthropologist and Social Media Archivist for the Greenwood Art Project, a CBS Gayle King Morning Show subject matter expert, and a producing storyteller for the Emmy Award winning Migrant Kitchen. His digital photos and film curation is featured in Google Arts and Culture with a special spotlight of his exhibition linked to the coveted Google search bar. His latest project features one of his carefully curated Amnesia Therapy Salon Dinners in partnership with The British Council and The Kenya Pavilion at the 2022 The Venice Biennial.

Marlon activates socially engaged art-installations, large scaled photography, ethnographic films shaped as visual poems, and carefully designed salon dinners as human rights of passage as a community well and wheel of healing. He works to move communities from deeply refreshing places of hope and joy. He has led major civic projects such as Doorways to Hope in Tulsa — a $278,000 underpass transformation honoring descendants of the 1921 Race Massacre — completed on time and within budget. In Houston, he is co-creating The Hueman Project, a 3,600 sq ft mural and sculptural installation that amplifies the voices of individuals experiencing homelessness, turning a neglected underpass into a place of dignity and belonging.

He is tilling the soil alongside local creatives and community advocates to nourish the harvest of human possibility growing from the city’s heart. More than a public art project, it is a poetic act of public care. Commissioned by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the City of Houston, Midtown Management, and the Texas Department of Transportation, The Hueman Project has turned concrete pillars and an underpass wall into narrative spaces that hold and honor the voices of those who have experienced homelessness. It serves as a visual meditation on the idea of home — exploring what it means to be whole in mind, body, and spirit — through the resilient stories of Houston’s unhoused community.