Kambui Olujimi

Kambui Olujimi works in an assortment of media, ranging from photography to installation and tapestry. His work interrogates ideas of mythology and generates social commentary on topics that include gentrification, police brutality, and segregation. The series Blind Sum includes several long exposure photographs inspired by the endurance dance marathons of the 1930s. Olujimi writes of this work, “While the dance marathons challenged many gender and class expectations, they were vehemently racially segregated. This work examines the repercussions of such omissions in the creation of mythic space. Blind Sum emblematizes the common contests of endurance, persistence, and defiance and the desire to live beyond the capacities that we have internalized.” Olujimi’s practice consistently mixes pressing issues with myth and whimsy.

Olujimi's work has been exhibited in solo and group shows internationally, including CUE Arts Foundation, NY, Apexart, NY, Art in General, NY, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, MoMA, NY, Studio Museum in Harlem, NY, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, CA, Museo Nacional Reina, Madrid, and Para Site, Hong Kong. He has received grants and fellowships from A Blade of Grass, The Jerome Foundation, and The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

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