Xavier Hardison (b. 1998) better known as X, is an African American Artist, Designer, and Entrepreneur from Germantown, Maryland. In 2013, he founded the fine arts studio know today as, X-Artifacts. He studied at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), and received fellowship from Yale Norfolk School of Art in 2019. Hardison has exhibited along the east coast including solo shows at the Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower and West Elm Inner Harbor, as well as group shows in Washington DC, Bethesda MD, Baltimore MD, Falls Church VA, Highland NY, Norfolk CT, and Providence RI. He currently lives and operates in Germantown, Maryland.