Gallery 9104 features the art of Iyaba Ibo Mandingo, storyteller and master teacher specializing in paintings, drawings, sculpture, textile collage, poetry, puppetry, and performance of his original works, like “UnFramed”. He is a sought-after poet/artist regionally, nationally, in the U.S., Caribbean and Africa.

Iyaba is a former Artist in Residence at the New York Theatre Workshop. Iyaba appeared regularly as a performance poet both in the United States and abroad including, the Fort Green Juneteenth Arts Festival, the Nuyorican Poetry Café, Brooklyn Moon, and Next Door Café. In 2011, Iyaba was the keynote performer at the Westchester, NY Poetry Festival. In 2015, Iyaba embarked on his first African tour bringing his one-man play “unFRAMED” and his first novel “Sins of My Fathers” and his poetry to South Africa and Nigeria. In 2017 Iyaba debut his clothing line MandingoWear.