Lili Bernard is a Cuban-born, Los Angeles-based multimedia artist.  Her work examines issues of sexism, racism, and trauma. She had a 2017 solo art exhibition "Antebellum Appropriations" at Museum of the African Diaspora.

Lili received her MFA from Otis College of Art and Design and did her undergraduate studies at Cornell University and City University of New York.  She is a mother of six, a painter, actor, author, educator, occasional curator, longtime community organizer, and founder of BAILA: Black Artists in Los Angeles. A public-figure antirape activist and co-chair of #ERAnow, Lili influenced the abolishment of the statute of limitations on rape prosecution in California, alongside her #EndRapeSOL peers.

"I create narrative artwork that chronicles sexual, racial and domestic violence, in a collision of cruelty against compassion. Autobiographical anecdotes of childhood abuse, adult rape, and suicide attempts intertwine with sociocultural struggles of my Caribbean immigrant family and ancestors. Afro-Cuban religious iconography and history tether together survivorship stories of the past and present. The unconquerable nature of the human spirit reins over the impact of trauma." -- Lili Bernard