Silas Munro is an artist, designer, writer, researcher, curator, surfer and descendant of the Banyole people of Eastern Uganda. He is the founder of the design studio Polymode based in Los Angeles and Raleigh that works with clients across cultural spheres. Commissions and collaborations include: The New York Times Magazine, MIT Press, Nike, Airbnb, the Brooklyn Museum, Storefront for Art and Architecture, the Art Institute of Chicago, Dia Art Foundation, and the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. Munro is the curator and author of Strikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest at Letterform Archive in 2022-2023 and the co-curator of Reverberations: Lineages in Design History at the Ford Foundation Gallery in 2025. He was a contributor to W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America and co-authored the first BIPOC-centered design history course, Black Design in America: African Americans and the African Diaspora in Graphic Design 19th-21st Century. His work was recently exhibited at the Joseloff Gallery at the University of Hartford, the Raizes Gallery at Lesley University, the LA Design Festival, and the Scottsdale Museum of Art, as well as in the group show Data Consciousness: Reframing Blackness in Contemporary Print at Print Center New York, curated by Tiffany E. Barber. Munro is Founding Faculty, Chair Emeritus for the MFA Program in Graphic Design at Vermont College of Fine Arts and the 2024-25 Georgette and Richard Koopman Distinguished Chair at the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford.

headshot credit is Courtesy Print Center New York. Photo by Argenis Apolinario