Education

2006

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

2013

Columbia University, Master of Fine Art

Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2023

"All I Got To Give," Vielmetter Los Angeles, CA

2021

"When Monuments Fall," Armory Art Show, New York, NY

2020

"Walk With Me," Project for Empty Space, Newark, NJ

"In Your Absence The Skies Are All The Same," Midnight Moments, Times Square Art Alliance, New York City, NY

2019

"Vanishing Lines," Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, NY

"Future Continuous (Duo with Andre Wagner)," Studio Museum, Harlem, NY

2018

"Where the Sky Begins," City of New York MTA, Permanent Installation, Brooklyn, NY

"Skywriters & Constellations," Newark Museum, Newark, NJ

"Off-Axis (Duo with Yashua Klos)," Time Equities, Art-Buildings, New York City, NY

"Redshift," Spring/Break, New York, NY

2017

"Where Does the Time Go...," Lincoln Center for the Preforming Arts, New York City, NY

2016

"What Endures," Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA

"Solastalgia," Cue Arts Foundation, New York, NY

2015

"What's Left to Burn?," Bindery Projects, Minneapolis, MN

2014

"Blind Sum," Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, NY

"A Life in Pictures," MIT List Visual Arts Center, Boston, MA

"The Conspiracy of Good People," Young World, Detroit, MI

2012

"A Life in Pictures," Apex Art, New York, NY

2011

"Love to Lose," Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2010

"Wayward North," Art in General, New York, NY

2009

"The Clouds Are After Me," Saatchi & Saatchi, New York, NY

2008

"Winter in America," de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA

"The Clouds Are After Me," Meyers Gallery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH Branch Gallery, Durham, NC, Main Gallery, Las Vegas, NV (multi-city concurrent exhibition)

2007

"The Lost Rivers Dream Index," Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT

2006

"Walk The Plank," Gallery 138, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023

"Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st Century Art and Poetics," Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming)

"Inheritance: Selections from the Whitney's Collection, 1971-2022," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

"Sharjah Biennial: Thinking Historically in the Present,” Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates

2022

"When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting," Zeitz MOCAA, South Africa

"The Dakar Biennale," Dakar, Senegal

2021

"New Histories, New Futures," The Clevland Art Museum, Cleveland, OH

"Fantasy America," Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA

2020

"This Is America, Art USA Today," Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands

2019

"Street Dreams," Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands

"As Long As We Are Flyin...," Luce Gallery, Torino, Italy

"A Thousand Plateaus," Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

"The Wretched of the Screen," Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

"Destroy, he said," Art Basel: Film, Basel, Switzerland

2018

"The 50 State Initiative," For Freedoms, [national initiative]

"Shadow Stories & Matters of Time," SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA

2017

"More Than A Two Step," MoMA PS1 & For Freedoms Laboratory, New York City, NY

"Project 107: Long Wolf Recital Corps," Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY

"The Half-Life of Love," MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA

"The Exposed Suture," Rond-Point Project, Marseille, France

"Sabbath," The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA

2016

"Paradoxical Stranger," Momo Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

"Time+Space: Futures," Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE

2015

"Draw: Mapping Madness," Inside Out Museum, Beijing, China Dali Contemporary Art Museum in Yunnan, China (traveling exhibition)

"Winter in America," Jack Shainman Gallery: The School, Kinderhook, NY

2014

"Crossing Brooklyn," Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY

2013

"Mnemonikos," Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand

"Rapid Pulse: International Performance Art Festival," Defibrillator, Chicago, IL

2011

"Pictures are Words-Not-Unknown," LiShui Museum of Photography, LiShui City, China

2011-2009

"StreetWise," Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain

"On Screen: Global Intimacy," Krannert Museum of Art, Urbana-Champaign, IL Bermuda National Gallery, Hamilton, Bermuda Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico (traveling exhibition)

2010-2009

"Fax," The Drawing Center, New York, NY, Para/Site, Hong Kong, China

2008

"Videocracy," The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Czech Republic

2007

"Harlem Postcards," Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

"Float," Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, NY

"Night Vision," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

"Dark Matters," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

"For the Love of the Game Black Light/ White Noise," The Wadsworth Museum, Hartford, CT

"Black Light/ White Noise," Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX

2006

"UnderPlayed," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

"The Black Alphabet," The Polish National Gallery: Zacheta Museum

"The California Biennial," Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

2005

"Frequency," Studio Museum in Harlem, New York NY

"Art Caucasus International," Georgian Trade Center, Tbilisi, Georgia

"URB Visual Urban Arts in the 21st Century," The Finnish National Gallery: Kiasma Museum, Helsinki, Finland

"Bay Area Now 4," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

2002

"Life of the City," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

2001

"Perceptions," Artist Space, New York, NY

2000

"Reflections in Black," Smithsonian Institute: Anacostia Museum, Washington, DC

Bibliography

2023

Volk, Gregory. "A Poignant Meditation on the Dance Marathon," Hyperallergic, December 18

Okereke-Cox, Christopher. "In Conversation: Kambui Olujimi Explores The Mythic Space of Depression Era Dance Marathons in ‘All I Got to Give’," Black Art And Design, November 28 (Link)

2022

Gill, Jenny. "In The Studio: Kambui Olujimi," Joan Mitchell Foundation, September 14 (Link)

2021

Ridbey, Seph. "Seeing the Armory Art Fair as a Chance to Reconnect," Hyperallergic, September 10

Boone, Keyaira. "14 Black Contemporary Artists And Curators You Should Know," Essence, January 28

Mitha, Siddhartha. "In 177 Portraits, an Artist’s Homage to His Bed-Stuy Muse," New York Times, January 8

2020

Bobb, Brooke. "The Wide Awakes Are the Civil War-Era Activist Group Making a Comeback in Bold, Joyful Style," Vogue, October 2

Dellinger, Matt. "A Civil War Political Movement Reawakens — Complete With Capes," New York Times, September 16

Elephant Staff. "Out Now! Elephant’s Summer Issue Imagines the Future of Community," Elephant, July 13

Yerebakan, Osman Can. "How Two Artists Are Using the Subversive Power of Comics to Illustrate Injustice," Observer, June 16

Mafi, Nick. "Young Black Artists Speak About the Role of Art in This Moment," Architectural Digest, June 16

Izon, Juliet. "How Artists Are Using Their Work As a Protest Tool," Architectural Digest, June 5

Sayej, Nadja. "'I want to show solidarity': how artists have reacted to George Floyd's killing," The Guardian, June 3

Simon, Stephanie. "Artists Make Provocative Works As Part of Their Protest," NY 1, June 1

Brara, Noor. "‘This Is a Revolution’: 18 Artists From Coast to Coast Share What They Saw and Felt at the George Floyd Protests," Artnews, June 1

2019

Burger, Mark Alan. "Artist Kambui Olujimi Wants to Float Free," Interview, November 8

Purcell, Barbara. "Kambui Olujimi Speaks Art to Power in "Zulu Time"," The Austin Chronicle, March 15

2018

Deshpande, Pia. "Political art set to sweep billboards across 50 US states ahead of 2018 midterms," CNN, September 25

NJTV News. "Art installation revels in the intersection of art and tech," NJTV Public Broadcasting Service, November 30

Carey, Brainard. "Kambui Olujimi," Yale University Radio, April 6

Thomas, Hank Willis. "Hank Willis Thomas and Kambui Olujimi," Bomb Magazine, April 3

Rodney, Steph. "Watering the Imagination at the Spring Break Art Show," Hyperallergic, March 8

Cascone, Sarah. "Armory Week 2018: Your Go-To Guide for All the Art Fairs," ArtNet News, March 6

2017

Rodney, Seph. "Water as a Cinematic Metaphor for the Tides of Time," Hyperallergic, November 17

Gleisser, Faye R. "“unstable objects”," ArtForum, September

"Artist Kambui Olujimi Explores the Many Dimensions of Time," To The Best Of Our Knowledge, National Public Radio, August 12

Worland, Gayle. "Artist at MMOCA links time and Power Dynamics," Wisconsin State Journal, May 28

"Out on the Town: A curated listing of local entertainment," Wisconsin Gazette, May 18

2016

Castro, Jan Garden. "Kambui Olujimi," Sculpture Magazine, Oct

Lynne, Jessica. "Bearing Witness," Art21 Magazine, March/April

Castro, Jan Garden. "Solastalgia and Personalizing Displacement at CUE Art Foundation, New York," whitehot Magazine, July

2015

Ryzik, Melena. "Artists Equity to Reopen a Gallery on the Lower East Side," New York Times, October 17

2014

Johnson, Ken. "The Artist Next Door," New York Times, Oct 3

Steinhauer, Jillian. "A Survey of Art from Across Brooklyn," Hyperallergic, October 1

Pantuso, Phillip."CROSSING BROOKLYN: KAMBUI OLUJIMI, IN YOUR ABSENCE THE SKIES ARE ALL THE SAME," Brooklyn Magazine, November 7

Publications

2021

"Fantasy America," The Andy Warhol Museum

2020

"Walk With Me," Exhibition Monograph, Project for Empty Space

2017

"Zulu Time," Exhibition Monograph, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art

2015

"Draw: Mapping Madness," Exhibition Monograph, Inside/Out Museum, pp.152-3

2012

"Wayward North," Exhibition Monograph, Art in General

2011

"Violence, Visual Culture, & the Black Male Body," Cassandra Jackson, published Routledge /UK

2007

"The Lost River’s Dreamers Index," Exhibition Monograph, Real Art Way

2006

"Frequency," The Studio Museum in Harlem, edited by Thelma Golden pp. 88-9

"Winter in America," 81 Press [W.I.A. is a collaboration with Hank Willis Thomas]

"Walk the Plank," Exhibition Monograph, Gallery 138

2003

"25 and Under photographers," PowerHouse/ C.D.S., edited by Iris Tillman Hill

"Trace Magazine," Vol. 41 pp. 32-36

2000

"Reflections in Black," W.W. Norton, edited by Deborah Willis p.189-90

Residencies

2022

Yaddo, New York, NY

Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA

Kino Saito Arts Center, Verplanck, NY

2019

Black Rock, Dakar, Senegal

2018

The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

Project for Empty Space, Newark, NJ

2017

Robert Rauschenberg Residency, Captiva Island, FL

Open Space Labs, Ottawa, Canada

2015

Civitella Ranieri, Umbertide, Italy

Meet Factory, Prague, Czech Republic

LMCC: Process Space Residency, Manhattan, NY

The Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL

2013

Tropical Lab 7, Singapore

2010-2011

Acadia Summer Arts Program, Mount Desert Island, ME

2009

Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE

Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM

2009-2007

Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown (2nd Year Fellow), MA

Apexart: Outbound Residency to Kellerberin, Australia

Commissions/Awards

2022

Andrew Mellon Foundation Grant

2021

Joan Mitchell Fellowship

2020

Colene Brown Prize

2019

Lighthouse Works Public Art Commission

2018

New York City MTA Arts & Design Commission

2017

NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship

2015

Urban Glass Merit Scholarship

2014

FSP/ Jerome Fellowship

2013

A Blade of Grass, Artist File Grantee

2008-2010

Art in General’s New Works Commission

2006

The Peekskill Project Public Art Initiative

Roma Independent Film Festival (Best Feature Nominee)

2004

The Brooklyn Icons Project

Jamaica Flux Public Art Project

Public Collections

Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL

Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY

Cleveland Art Museum, Cleveland OH

Light Works, Syracuse, NY

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Nasher Museum, Durham, NC

Newark Museum, Newark, NJ

North Folk Bank, Jamaica, NY

Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, CA

Smart Museum, Chicago, IL

Studio Museum in Harlem, NY

The Bass, Miami, FL

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY