How identity influence art?

I wanted to know how my identity is influence by art? So, I did a fun activity. 

I am a professional visual artist. Everything about my personal identity can influence my visual art. I got Jacob Lawrence. 

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I am a very ambitious and studious person. I want to gain knowledge and give that knowledge to others. I want to make a difference in peoples lives through my unique abilities. This is similar to Jacob Lawrence.

Jacob Lawrence was an "African American artist who was raised in New York City’s Harlem. Raised in a broken home, Lawrence was introduced to the art world when he was very young. His mother enrolled him in a children’s center which had an after school art program. He dropped out of school at the age of 16 but took many art classes at the Harlem Art Workshop. It is here where he gained many of his Harlem influences. His teacher at the workshop was another well known African American artist named Charles Alston. Alston helped Lawrence get a scholarship to the American Artists School and had a great influence on his life in art. While Alston influenced a lot of his work, so did Harlem. He created his own style of modernism called “dynamic cubism.” In doing this he documented the journey through life and struggles of African Americans in the Unites States. 

In doing this, I share my own personal stories and why I became a visual artist. Unlike, Jacob Lawrence, I never dropped out of school. I completed my education in 1997. Similar to Jacob Lawrence, I come from a divorced home and was enrolled in a number of visual art classes from the 1980s - 1990s. My visual artwork was influenced by many visual artists. Some of them include Jacob Lawrence, Marvin Sin and Jorge Somarriba.