Kambui Olujimi Explained

Kambui Olujimi
Birth Date:1976
Birth Place:Brooklyn, New York U.S.
Nationality:American
Occupation:Visual artist

Kambui Olujimi (born 1976) is a New York-based visual artist working across disciplines using installation, photography, performance, tapestry, works on paper, video, large sculptures and painting.[1] His artwork reflects on public discourse, mythology, historical narrative, social practices, exchange, mediated cultures, resilience and autonomy.[2] [3]

Early life and education

Olujimi was born and grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City.[4]

In 1996, he attended Bard College. In 2002, he received a BFA from Parsons School of Design. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine in 2006. In 2013, Olujimi received an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts.[5]

Career

Reviews of his work have appeared in publications including Art in America, The New York Times,[6] The New Yorker, Modern Painters, Artforum, Hyperallergic,[7] and The Brooklyn Rail.[8] Throughout his career he has received numerous grants and fellowships including from A Blade of Grass,[9] the Jerome Foundation, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.[10] He has also collaborated with artists Hank Willis Thomas,[11] Christopher Myers,[12] and Coco Fusco.[13] [14]

Olujimi's visual work is in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art,[15] the Whitney Museum of American Art,[16] the Speed Art Museum,[17] the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University,[18] and the Cleveland Museum of Art.[19] [20]

He has taught in the Visual Art programs at Columbia University and Cooper Union.[21] [22]

Olujimi was one of the subjects of the short feature Through a Lens Darkly, concerning the struggle for African American photographers to receive recognition.[23]

Personal life

Some of Olujimi's work is inspired by Bedford-Stuyvesant community leader and activist Catherine Arline, a woman he considered a surrogate mother and referred to as his guardian angel.[24] Olujimi described his series of portraits of Arline as both a "mourning practice" and an experiment in "memory work."[25]

Olujimi currently lives and works in Queens, New York.

Honors

Awards

Artist-in-residency

Exhibitions

Olujimi's work has been exhibited in a number of institutions nationally, including: the Whitney Museum of American Art,[35] Los Angeles County Museum of Art,[36] The Andy Warhol Museum,[37] Studio Museum in Harlem (New York, NY), CUE Arts Foundation (New York, NY), MIT List Visual Arts Center (Cambridge, MA),[38] Apexart (New York, NY), Art in General (Brooklyn, NY), The Sundance Film Festival (Park City, UT), Smithsonian Institution, (Washington D.C.), Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (Madison, WI), Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA), Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, CA), Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (Houston, TX), The Blanton Museum of Art (Austin, TX),[39] [40] The Newark Museum (Newark, NJ),[41] [42] the Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY), and Project for Empty Space, Newark, NJ.

Internationally, Olujimi's work has been exhibited in the Sharjah Biennial 15 (Sharjah, UAE),[43] the Dakar Biennale Dak'Art 14 (Dakar, Senegal),[44] Zeitz MOCAA (Cape Town, South Africa),[45] Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid, Spain), Kiasma (Helsinki, Finland), Para Site (Hong Kong, China), The Jim Thompson Art Center (Bangkok, Thailand).

He has given artist lectures in many institutions nationally and internationally, including Carleton University, Ottawa,[46] University of Buffalo,[47] the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,[48] Rhode Island School of Design.[49]

Works and publications

Sources

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Whiting. Sam. Dancing around the art at Clark gallery. San Francisco Chronicle. 7 September 2016.
  2. News: Davis. Ben. Summer Guide: Brian Chippendale Paints Up a New Burst of Color Hysteria. The Village Voice. 25 May 2010.
  3. News: Datebook: Kambui Olujimi's 'What Endures' at Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco. Artinfo. 8 September 2016.
  4. News: Pantuso. Phillip. Crossing Brooklyn: Kambui Olujimi, In Your Absence the Skies Are All the Same. Brooklyn Magazine. 7 November 2014.
  5. News: List Projects: Kambui Olujimi. e-flux. 18 January 2014.
  6. News: Mitter . Siddhartha . 2021-01-08 . In 177 Portraits, an Artist's Homage to His Bed-Stuy Muse . 2024-01-14 . The New York Times . en-US . 0362-4331.
  7. Web site: Water as a Cinematic Metaphor for the Tides of Time. 2017-11-17. Hyperallergic. en-US. 2019-08-17.
  8. Web site: Kambui Olujimi . 2017-01-02 . CUE Art Foundation.
  9. News: Artist Files Grantees Announced! - A Blade of Grass. A Blade of Grass. 24 January 2013.
  10. News: 5 June 2010 . New Commissions: Kambui Olujimi, Wayward North . Art in General.
  11. Web site: Hank Willis Thomas, Kambui Olujimi Winter in America (2006) Artsy . 2024-01-14 . www.artsy.net . en.
  12. Web site: BOMB Magazine Hank Willis Thomas and Kambui Olujimi . 2024-01-14 . BOMB Magazine . en.
  13. Fusco. Coco. Muñoz. José Esteban. 2008. A Room of One's Own: Women and Power in the New America. 25145494. TDR. 52. 1. 136–159. 10.1162/dram.2008.52.1.136. 159057627 .
  14. Book: j.ctt5hhwpv.8. War Culture and the Contest of Images. 2012. Rutgers University Press. 9780813553955. 79–111. Abu Ghraib, Gender, and the Military. Apel. Dora.
  15. Web site: Brooklyn Museum. www.brooklynmuseum.org. 2017-01-02.
  16. Web site: Kambui Olujimi . 2024-01-14 . whitney.org . en.
  17. Web site: In Case the Wind Will Not Listen . 2024-01-14 . Speed Art Museum . en-US.
  18. Web site: Love & Anarchy . 2024-01-14 . Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University . en-US.
  19. News: Winter in America. 2016-12-31. Cleveland Museum of Art. 2017-01-04.
  20. Web site: Anonymous . 2022-03-17 . Italo . 2024-01-14 . Cleveland Museum of Art . en.
  21. Web site: Kambui Olujimi. arts.columbia.edu. 2017-01-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20170105083455/http://arts.columbia.edu/visual-arts/faculty/Kambui-Olujimi. 2017-01-05. dead.
  22. Web site: Kambui Olujimi The Cooper Union. cooper.edu. 2017-01-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20170105092725/http://cooper.edu/academics/people/kambui-olujimi. 2017-01-05. dead.
  23. Harris, Thomas A, and Kambui Olujimi. Through a Lens Darkly: Philosophy of the Artist. 2014. Internet resource.
  24. News: Bautista. Camille. Bed-Stuy Residents Mourn Longtime Community Leader. DNAinfo New York. 31 October 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20170105085312/https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20141031/bed-stuy/bed-stuy-residents-mourn-longtime-community-leader. 5 January 2017.
  25. News: Mitter . Siddhartha . 2021-01-08 . In 177 Portraits, an Artist's Homage to His Bed-Stuy Muse . 2021-02-13 . The New York Times . en-US . 0362-4331.
  26. Web site: Joan Mitchell Foundation Announces Inaugural Fellows. 2021-11-19. www.artforum.com. 13 October 2021 . en-US.
  27. Web site: aclark . 2020-11-04 . 2020 Colene Brown Art Prize Recipients . 2024-01-14 . BRIC . en.
  28. Web site: Residents . 2024-01-14 . Denniston Hill . en-US.
  29. Web site: Our Artists – Yaddo . 2024-01-14 . en-US.
  30. Web site: The Bray Incubator . 2024-01-14 . Archie Bray . en-US.
  31. Web site: Artists Selected for Kehinde Wiley's Inaugural Residency Program in Senegal . 2019-08-17 . www.artforum.com . 23 July 2019 . en-US.
  32. Web site: Kambui Olujimi - Artist . 2019-08-17 . Macdowell Colony . en.
  33. News: Kambui Olujimi - Lower Manhattan Cultural Council . 2017-01-02 . Lower Manhattan Cultural Council . en-US.
  34. Web site: Kambui Olujimi - Fellows - Civitella Ranieri . 2017-01-02 . exhibit-e .
  35. Web site: Inheritance . 2024-01-14 . whitney.org . en.
  36. Web site: Black American Portraits . 2024-01-14 . LACMA . en.
  37. Web site: Fantasy America . 2024-01-14 . The Andy Warhol Museum . en-US.
  38. Web site: List Projects: Kambui Olujimi. MIT List Visual Arts Center. 2017-01-02.
  39. Web site: Kambui Olujimi: Zulu Time . 2019-08-17 . Blanton Museum of Art . en-US.
  40. Web site: Purcell . Barbara . March 15, 2019 . Kambui Olujimi Speaks Art to Power in "Zulu Time" . 2019-08-17 . www.austinchronicle.com . en-US.
  41. Web site: Skywriters & Constellations . 2019-08-17 . www.newarkmuseum.org.
  42. Web site: Art installation revels in the intersection of art and technology Video . 2019-08-17 . NJTV News . en-US.
  43. Web site: events - Sharjah Art Foundation . 2024-01-14 . sharjahart.org.
  44. Web site: Das . Jareh . 2022-06-14 . Dak'Art Shines a Light on Contemporary Art in Senegal . 2024-01-14 . Frieze . en.
  45. Web site: When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting . 2024-01-14 . Zeitz MOCAA . en-ZA.
  46. Web site: OSL 03: Kambui Olujimi / Public readings from "Wayward North" and dialogue with Anna Khimasia. 2017-11-13. Events Calendar. en. 2019-08-17.
  47. Web site: Visiting Artist Speaker Series, Fall 2018 ubART Clone. 2019-08-17.
  48. Web site: Kambui Olujimi . 2024-01-14 . www.themodern.org . en.
  49. Web site: Visiting Lecture Series. RISD Glass. en-US. 2019-03-13.
  50. Book: Kambui Olujimi : Zulu time. Aranke. Sampada. Volk. Gregory. Kolb. Leah. Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. 9780913883389. Madison. 981948700. 2017.
  51. Web site: Kambui Olujimi: WALK WITH ME Catalog . 2024-01-14 . Project for Empty Space . en-US.

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