Ain Eccles is a Brooklyn and Chicago based multidisciplinary fine artist and art therapist whose work explores the intersections between identity, sexuality, and psychology. Her current work concentrates on intertwining art and psychology as she examines how historical-cultural images, tropes, and archetypes are linked to modern experiences and morph through generations. Ain investigates the ways Black women in contemporary American culture reclaim and repurpose the image of their body through technology to negate or engage with stereotypical ideas around Black femininity and sexuality. She posits the question of how cultural diasporic displacement within an American context influences and/or become a part of the expression and embodiment of black femininity (both in terms of its construction and personal expression). 

Ain presents with a unique and anthropological perspective as she was raised moving, traveling, and adapting to various cultures and countries. This influences another perspective of her work–connecting distinctive experiences of Blackness and ways it is universally perceived, embodied, and subjugated both consciously and unconsciously.

Although Ain has been engaging in the arts since a child, she has formally received her BFA from Parsons The New School of Design, BA in Psychology from Eugene Lang College The New School of Liberal Arts, and Masters in Art Therapy and Counseling from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She currently works both as an Artist and Art Therapist as each profession informs one another while centering the process of art making and curiosity.