Jordany Genao is a Caribbean artist whose ceramic-based practice explores indigeneity, ritual, and material memory through the legacies of Taíno culture in Ayiti (Dominican Republic and Haiti). Their work draws on the symbolic and spiritual roles of land, plants, and elemental forces, positioning ceramics as an artistic medium informed by ancestral knowledge. Engaging with traditional forms such as bowls and potizos, they reconstruct and expand upon ceramic techniques found within colonial archives, affirming them as sites of reclamation and continuity. Their work investigates the elemental nature of ceramics—earth, water, fire, and metal—as a framework for understanding animism and metaphysics.

Through their Karibe Botanica series, Jordany builds intentional relationships with plants through collaging colonial botanical illustrations with their own mapping of the plants spirit and energy. They see this series as an extension of their herbalism, to highlight the leading roles Taino named plants had and continue to have in nourishment, medicine, and spirituality. Jordany Genao is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Queens, NY (Lenapehoking). They completed their MFA with a focus in ceramics at Hunter College in May 2023. Their most recent showing was at Wave Hill with the Sunroom Project Space titled 'espiritu de sabor'.