Angela Pilgrim (b. 1991, New Jersey) lives and works in Newark, New Jersey. Working primarily in printmaking and mixed media, Pilgrim builds meaning through layering accumulating mark, pattern, and material to examine Black subjectivity through the Black female gaze. Her practice moves across portraiture, pattern-making, and process-driven composition to explore constructions of beauty, spirituality, and the dynamics of desire, vulnerability, and power within Black diasporic identities. Drawing from the histories and visual languages of the African diaspora, she threads inherited traditions through contemporary material approaches and the expressed knowledge of Black womanhood. By centering the Black body as both subject and author, her work cultivates new modes of seeing and being seen, reframing Black presence as self-defined, nuanced, and expansive.

Solo exhibitions include New Growth, The Center for Contemporary Art, New Jersey (2024); Rooted in Spirit,  Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota (2024).

Pilgrim is a recipient of a 2026 Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, among other grants and awards. Her work has been featured in Pressing Matters, The Creative Independent, and the Getty Archives.

Pilgrim's work is included in collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, USA; and the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art, among others.