Kambui Olujimi

Kambui Olujimi was born and raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. He received his MFA from Columbia University and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. His work challenges established modes of thinking that commonly function as “inevitabilities.” By excavating the language and aesthetics of social, historical, and cultural conventions, he brings them out of the world of the implicit. Once given gravity, weight, and shape, it becomes possible to reveal their incongruities and their illusory nature. This pursuit takes shape through interdisciplinary bodies of work spanning sculpture, installation, photography, writing, video, and performance. His works have premiered nationally and internationally at Sundance Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art, LACMA, Sharjah Biennial 15, the 14th Dak’Art Biennale, and Kunstmuseum Basel, among others. Olujimi has been awarded grants, fellowships, and residencies from the Mellon Foundation, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, MacDowell, and Yaddo.

His work has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Art in America, Vogue, and CNN. Olujimi’s work is in the permanent collections of numerous museums and public collections, including The Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum, The Cleveland Museum of Art, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. His solo exhibition North Star is currently on view through June 1 at the San Jose Museum of Art. This spring, Gregory R. Miller & Co. will be publishing a hardcover monograph of the same name.