Kambui Olujimi

Kambui Olujimi is a visual artist, designer and filmmaker, born and raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn. Olujimi’s work challenges established modes of thinking that commonly function as "inevitabilities." This pursuit takes shape through interdisciplinary bodies of work spanning sculpture, installation, photography, writing, textile, video and performance. His work has been exhibited nationally at Museum of Modern Art, NY, The Sundance Film Festival, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA. Internationally his work has been featured at Museo Nacional Reina Sofia in Madrid; Kunsthal Rotterdam in the Netherlands; and Para Site in Hong Kong among others. His work has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Art in America, Vogue and CNN.  His work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, NY; The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA. Olujimi is currently working on a transmedia project entitled North Star: Meditations on Weightlessness, exploring Blackness and the boundless body.