Markeith Chavous is a media artist and poet. His work plies at the edges and inquires into the thin space between tensile, fleeting dichotomies and polarities—receding and becoming; narrative and documentary; painting and film/video; inner life and social identity; stillness and change; religion and spirituality; humanism and transcendence. Through multimedia installations (informed by experimental and documentary film, and the history of Western painting) and short form poetry, he attempts, time and time again, to glance against the innermost and all-too-human.

His video work and installations have been presented internationally at the Film and Moving Image Festival in Scotland, at the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA) Museum in South Korea, and in the US at the Lewiston-Augusta Film Festival in Maine, the New Studio A.D in New Mexico, and in Los Angeles. His poetry has been widely published in international journals and anthologies such as NOON: An Anthology of Short Poems, Modern Haiku, BONES, The Heron's Nest, KAMIHIKOUKI, and HAIKU 2016.

He holds a BFA in Studio Art from the University of Maine at Farmington, and an MFA in Film & Video from the California Institute of the Arts.