Lorenzo Pace

Lorenzo Pace (born 1943) is an American artist best known for his African Burial Ground Memorial sculpture in New York City, Triumph of the Human Spirit.

Biography Pace, who had 12 siblings, was born in Birmingham, Alabama, where his father was a minister in the Church of God in Christ. Pace has also taught at Medgar Evers College and served as director of the Montclair State University art galleries, a position he was first appointed to in 1988.

In 2000, his black granite The top-level crown is based on the Chiwara female antelope forms in Bambaran art. The middle-level long form represents the Middle Passage slaves endured in the Atlantic slave trade.

Pace is also the author of Jalani and the Lock, a children's book which tells the story behind his ancestor's captive restraint which became a familial keepsake.

Pace works at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley as a professor of art.