Kambui Olujimi: Zulu Time exhibition catalog
This catalog is from the installation of this exhibition at MMoCA. It includes essays by Sampada Aranke, Leah Kolb, and Gregory Volk.
This catalog is from the installation of this exhibition at MMoCA. It includes essays by Sampada Aranke, Leah Kolb, and Gregory Volk.
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KAMBUI OLUJIMI<br />
was born and raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn and received<br />
his MFA from Columbia University in New York City. <strong>Olujimi</strong>’s work<br />
challenges established modes of thinking that commonly function<br />
as “inevitabilities.” This pursuit takes shape through interdisciplinary<br />
bodies of work spanning sculpture, installation, photography,<br />
writing, video, and performance. His solo <strong>exhibition</strong>s include: A<br />
Life in Pictures at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Solastalgia at Cue<br />
Arts Foundation, and Wayward North at Art in General. His works<br />
have premiered nationally at The Sundance Film Festival, Studio<br />
Museum in Harlem, MoMA P.S.1, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los<br />
Angeles and Mass MoCA. Internationally his work has been featured<br />
at The Jim Thompson Art Center in Bangkok, Museo Nacional<br />
Reina Sofia in Madrid, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in<br />
Finland, and Para Site in Hong Kong, among others. <strong>Olujimi</strong> has<br />
been awarded residencies from Skowhegan School of Painting and<br />
Sculpture, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and Civitella Ranieri.<br />
He has received grants and commissions from numerous institutions<br />
including A Blade of Grass, The Jerome Foundation, and MTA Arts<br />
& Design for the City of New York. Newspapers and journals such<br />
as The New Yorker, Art Forum, Art in America, Brooklyn Rail, The<br />
New York <strong>Time</strong>s, and Modern Painters have written about <strong>Olujimi</strong>’s<br />
artwork. Monographs on his past projects include Walk the Plank<br />
(2006), Winter in America (in collaboration with Hank Willis Thomas,<br />
2006), The Lost Rivers Index (2007), and Wayward North (2012).<br />
Education<br />
2013 MFA, Columbia University School of the Arts, NY<br />
2006 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME<br />
Residencies<br />
2017 Robert Rauschenberg Residency, FL<br />
2015 Civitella Ranieri, Umbertide, Italy<br />
Meet Factory, Prague, Czech Republic<br />
LMCC: Process Space Residency, NY<br />
2013 Tropical Lab 7, Singapore<br />
2010-11 Acadia Summer Arts Program, ME<br />
Santa Fe Art Institute, NM<br />
2007-09 Fine Arts Work Center at Provincetown (2nd Year Fellow), MA<br />
2007 Apexart: Outbound Residency to Kellerberin, Australia<br />
Commissions / Awards<br />
2016 New York City MTA Arts & Design<br />
2015 Urban Glass Merit Scholarship<br />
2014 FSP/ Jerome Fellowship<br />
2013 A Blade of Grass, Artist File Grantee<br />
2010 Art in General’s New Works Commission<br />
Solo Exhibitions<br />
2017 <strong>Zulu</strong> <strong>Time</strong>, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, WI<br />
2016 What Endures, Catherine Clark Gallery, New York, NY<br />
Solastalgia, Cue Arts Foundation, New York, NY<br />
2015 What’s Left to Burn?, Bindery Projects, Minneapolis, MN<br />
2014 Blind Sum , Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, NY<br />
A Life in Pictures, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Boston, MA<br />
The Conspiracy of Good People, Young World, Detroit, MI<br />
2012 A Life in Pictures, Apex Art, New York, NY<br />
2011 Love to Lose, Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA<br />
2010 Wayward North, Art in General, New York, NY<br />
2009 The Clouds Are After Me, Saatchi & Saatchi, New York, NY<br />
2008 Winter in America, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA<br />
Selected Group Exhibitions<br />
2017 The Exposed Suture, Rond-Point Project, Marseille, France<br />
The Half-Life of Love, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA<br />
More Than A Two Step, MoMA P.S.1 / For Freedoms Laboratory, NY<br />
2016 Paradoxical Stranger, Momo Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa<br />
2015 Draw: Mapping Madness, Inside Out Museum, Beijing, China<br />
Winter in America, Jack Shainman Gallery: The School, Kinderhook, NY<br />
2015: 1947, Artist Equity, New York, NY<br />
2014 Crossing Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY<br />
Performing for Cyclops, The Pitch Project, Milwaukee, WI<br />
2013 Mnemonikos, Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand<br />
2011 Pictures are Words-Not-Unknown, LiShui Museum of Photography,<br />
LiShui City, China<br />
2011-09 StreetWise, Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain<br />
On Screen: Global Intimacy, Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico<br />
2010-09 Fax, The Drawing Center, New York, NY<br />
Selected Bibliography / Publications<br />
2016 All Power: Visual Legacies of the Black Panther Party, Minor Matters,<br />
edited by Michelle Dunn Marsh pp. 54-7<br />
2015 Draw: Mapping Madness, Exhibition Monograph published by<br />
Inside/Out Museum, pp.152-3<br />
2012 Wayward North, Exhibition Monograph published by Art in General<br />
2011 Violence, Visual Culture, & the Black Male Body, Cassandra Jackson,<br />
published Routledge / UK, p.74<br />
2006 Frequency, The Studio Museum in Harlem, edited by Thelma Golden,<br />
pp. 82-3, 89<br />
Winter in America, 81 Press (W.I.A. is a collaboration with Hank Willis Thomas)<br />
Walk the Plank, Exhibition Monograph published by Gallery 138<br />
2000 Reflections in Black, W.W. Norton, edited by Deborah Willis, pp.247-8<br />
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