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Kambui Olujimi

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Curriculum Vitae

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EDUCATION
2006 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan ME
2002 BFA, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
1994–1996 Bard College, New York, NY

 

  • “Winter in America”, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA (catalogue)
  • “The Clouds Are After Me”, Branch Gallery, Durham, NC and University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
  • “The Lost Rivers Dream Index”, Real Arts Ways, Hartford, CT (catalogue)
  • “Walk the Plank: A Conceptual Tribute to Nina Simone”, Gallery 138, New York, NY

 

  • “Street Wise”, Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
  • “On Screen: Global Intimacy”, Krannert Museum of Art, Urbana- Champaign, IL
  • “Videocracy”, The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague, Czech Republic
  • “Video Form”, Form, London, UK
  • “Fine Arts Work Center Annual”, Provincetown Art Association Museum, MA
  • “I will be alright,” Country Club, Cincinnati, OH
  • “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
  • “TV Dinners”, LMAK Projects, New York, NY and Other Space, Boston, MA
  • “For the Love of the Game”, the Wadsworth Museum, Hartford, CT
  • “Black Light/ White Noise”, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (catalogue)
  • “The Sagamore Video Collection”, The Sagamore Hotel, South Beach, FL
  • “UnderPlayed”, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
  • “The Black Alphabet”, The Polish National Gallery: Zacheta Museum, Warsaw, Poland
  • “The California Biennial”, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA (catalogue)
  • “Metro Pictures”, MOCA North Miami, The Moore Space, Miami, FL
  • “Jaundiced Eye”, Scope NY Curatorial Project, New York, NY
  • “Codependent”, The Living Room, Miami, FL
  • “Frequency”, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
  • “URB Visual - Urban Arts in the 21st Century”, The Finnish National Gallery: Kiasma Museum, FL
  • “Bay Area Now 4”, Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco, CA
  • “Untitled”, Lisa Dent Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • “The ArtReview 25”, Phillips de Pury Gallery, New York, NY
  • “Upon Further Review”, Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, New York, NY
  • “The Book as Object & Performance”, Gigantic Artspace, New York, NY
  • “Jamaica Flux”, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, New York, NY
  • “Open House”, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY
  • “Saturday Night/ Sunday Morning”, Leica Gallery, New York, NY
  • “25 Under 25 Photographers”, Center for Documentary Studies, Durham, NC
  • “Life of the City”, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  • “Perceptions”, Artist Space, New York, NY
  • “Reflections in Black”, Smithsonian Institute: Anacostia Museum, Washington, DC

 

  • “Night Flights”, Director & Director of Photography
  • “American Vernacular”, Director of Photography, [Directed by Julia Brown]
  • “Heartaches and Toothaches”, Director & Director of Photography
  • “Operation Atropos”, Director of Photography, [Directed by Coco Fusco]
  • “Winter in America”, Co-Director & Director of Photography, [Co-Directed by Hank Willis Thomas], digital video 5 min.
  • “Amazing Grace”, Director of Photography, [Directed by Wangechi Mutu], super 8mm. 5 min.
  • “Destiny’s Dream”, Directory of Photography, [Directed by Jon Davison & Jim Mol], digital video. 47 min.
  • “Last Looks”, Director & Director of Photography, digital video 5min.
  • “A New Wave”, Directory of Photography, [Directed by Jason Carvey], super 16mm. 92 min.
  • “a.k.a. Mrs. George Gilbert”, Directory of Photography, [Directed by Coco Fusco], digital video 47 min.
  • “The Mapmaker”, Directory of Photography, [Directed by Shannon Biard], 16mm. 29 min.

 

  • Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe Art Institute
  • Fine Arts Work Center at Provincetown (2nd Year Fellow)
  • Art In General’s New Works Commission
  • Apex Art’s Outbound Residency hosted by International Art Space Kellerberin, Australia
  • The Peekskill Project
  • Roma Independent Film Festival (Best Feature Nominee)
  • SFX Amsterdam Film Festival (Official Selection)
  • BCAT / Rotunda Gallery Multimedia Artist Residency
  • The Brooklyn Icons Project
  • Jamaica Flux Public Art Project
  • Alabama State Council for the Art Artist in Residency
  • The Corbis Award (World Studios)

 

  • Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY
  • Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
  • The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
  • North Folk Bank, New York, NY
  • The Sagamore Collection, South Beach, FL
  • Light Works, Syracuse, NY

 

  • The New York Times. January 6, 2008, p. AR18
  • CityBeat, November 5–11, 2008, p. 41
  • The Herald Sun. October 12, p. 61
  • Indy Weekly. October 22, p. 46
  • Art US. Winter, issue 20, p. 58-59
  • Art Houston. July, p. 38
  • Hartford Advocate. November 22-28, p. 31
  • Art in America. December, pp. 157-8, 165
  • The New York Times. May 12, p. E32
  • Art+Auction. May, pp. 2, 88-89
  • Art Forum. January, p. 217
  • Art in American. January, p. 58
  • The New Yorker. December 5, p. 76
  • The New York Times. November 25, p. E30
  • Helsingin Sanomat. September 10, p. 4
  • Kas Taidetta. Vol. 2 pp. 6-7
  • Art Review International. Vol. 3 Num.3 p. 111, p. 120
  • The New York Times. November 12, p. E35
  • Flash Art. June/ July, p. 88
  • The New York Times. April 16, p. E41
  • Time Out New York. May 22-29, p. 75
  • The New York Times. May 16, p. E76

 

  • The Lost River’s Dreamers Index Exhibition Monograph published by Real Art Ways
  • Walk the Plank, Exhibition Monograph published by Gallery 138
  • Saturday Night Sunday Morning, Hylas Publishing, edited by Deborah Willis
  • Black: A Celebration of Culture, Hylas Publishing, edited by Deborah Willis
  • 25 and Under Photographers, Power-House/ C.D.S. edited by Iris Tillman Hill
  • Trace Magazine Vol.41 pp. 32-36
  • The New York Times Magazine, June 2, p. 67
  • Sports Illustrated for Women, February pp. 68-71
  • Village Voice, February 17, p. 37
  • Village Voice, March 31, p. 51
  • Reflections in Black, W.W. Norton, edited by Deborah Willis

 

  • Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
  • University of Nebraska Art Department
  • de Saisset Museum, CA
  • DAAP, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
  • The Goethe Institute in Accra, Ghana
  • New York University’s Tisch School for the Arts, NY
  • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

 

  • “The Triangle”, [co-curated with Deborah Willis], The Goethe Institute in Accra, Ghana
  • “Off the Record”, The Skylight Gallery, NY

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