When You Find Me
2021
Kambui Olujimi
Queens, New York
Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.
About Kambui Olujimi
Kambui Olujimi is a visual artist, designer and filmmaker, born and raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn. Olujimi's work challenges established modes of thought that often function as "inevitable" This quest takes form through interdisciplinary bodies of work that encompass sculpture, installation, photography, writing, textile, video and performance. Her work has been exhibited nationally at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Sundance Film Festival and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Internationally, his work has been exhibited at the Museo Nacional Reina Sofia in Madrid; Kunsthal Rotterdam in Holland; and Para Site in Hong Kong, among others. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Art in America, Vogue and CNN. His work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum (New York), the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), the Cleveland Museum of Art (Ohio) and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (California). Olujimi is currently working on a transmedia project entitled North Star: Meditations on Weightlessness, which explores blackness and the body without limits.
Program Participation
Joan Mitchell Fellowship, 2021
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Through my practice, I excavate the language and aesthetics of social, historical and cultural conventions and bring them out of the world of the implicit. Once they are given gravity, weight and form, it becomes possible to reveal their incongruities and illusory nature.”
