Kambui Olujimi

Kambui Olujimi (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la yuuni 1976) nyɛla New York lihigu nuchee ni baŋda ka o tuma nyɛ din tooi jɛndi sinii mini pɛntibu.

 Piligu biɛhigu mini shikuru baŋsim 
Olujimi nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so Bedford-Stuyvesant, di nyɛla tiŋ din miri Brooklyn ka be New York City.

Yuuni 1996, o daa chaŋ la Bard College. Yuuni 2002, o daa deegi o BFA shikuru yuli booni Parsons School of Design.O daa lahi chaŋ Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture din be Maine yuuni 2006. Yuuni 2013, Olujimi nyɛla ŋun daa nya o MFA shikuru yuli booni Columbia University School of the Arts.

 Tuma 
O tumanima nyɛla din be Art in America, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Modern Painters, Artforum, Hyperallergic, n-ti pahi The Brooklyn Rail. O tuma puuni, o nyɛla ŋun deegi sɔŋsim pina kamani A Blade of Grass, Jerome Foundation ni Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. O nyɛla ŋun lahi tum ni nuchee ni baŋdiba kamani Hank Willis Thomas, Christopher Myers, n-ti pahi Coco Fusco.

Olujimi's nyɛla lihigu nuchee ni baŋda ka o tumanima nyɛ din be "permanent collections" kamani Brooklyn Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Speed Art Museum,  Nasher Museum of Art din be Duke University, n-ti pahi Cleveland Museum of Art.

O nyɛla ŋun wuhi Visual Art programs shikuru yuli booni Columbia University mini Cooper Union.

 Honors 

 Awards 
 2021: Awarded Joan Mitchell Fellowship by the Joan Mitchell Foundation
 2020: Awarded Colene Brown Art Prize by BRIC Arts Media

 Artist-in-residency 
 2023: Denniston Hill (Glen Wild, NY)
 2022: Yaddo (Saratoga Springs, NY)
 2022: Archie Bray Foundation (Helena, MT)
 2019: Black Rock Senegal (Dakar, Senegal)
 2018: MacDowell (Peterborough, NH)
 2017: Robert Rauschenberg Residency (Captiva, FL)
 2016: Queenspace Residency (Long Island City, NY)
 2015: The Fountainhead Residency (Miami, FL)
 2015: The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (New York, NY), Process Space Residency
 2015: Meet Factory (Prague, Czech Republic)
 2015: Civitella Ranieri (Umbertide, Italy)
 2014: Franconia Sculpture Park (Franconia, MN)
 2013: Tropical Lab 7 (Singapore)
 2011: The Center for Book Arts (New York, NY)
 2010: Acadia Summer Arts Program (Mt. Desert, ME)
 2009: Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha, NE)
 2009: Santa Fe Art Institute (Santa Fe, NM)
 2007-2009: Fine Arts Work Center at Provincetown (Provincetown, MA), 2nd Year Fellow
 2007-2009: Apexart: Outbound Residency to Kellerberin, Australia (Kellerberin, Australia)
 2006: Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Skowhegan, ME)
 2005: BCAT / Rotunda Gallery Multimedia Artist Residency (New York, NY)

 Exhibitions 
Olujimi's tumanima nyɛla din be kariŋ zuna ni kamani Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Andy Warhol Museum, Studio Museum in Harlem (New York, NY), CUE Arts Foundation (New York, NY), MIT List Visual Arts Center (Cambridge, MA), Apexart (New York, NY), Art in General (Brooklyn, NY), The Sundance Film Festival (Park City, UT), Smithsonian Institution, (Washington D.C.), Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (Madison, WI), Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA),  Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, CA), Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (Houston, TX), The Blanton Museum of Art (Austin, TX), The Newark Museum (Newark, NJ), the Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY), n-ti pahi Project for Empty Space, Newark, NJ. 

Olujimi's tumanima nyɛla din be tiŋduya kamani Sharjah Biennial 15 (Sharjah, UAE),  Dakar Biennale Dak'Art 14 (Dakar, Senegal), Zeitz MOCAA (Cape Town, South Africa), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid, Spain), Kiasma (Helsinki, Finland), Para Site (Hong Kong, China), The Jim Thompson Art Center (Bangkok, Thailand).

O nyɛla ŋun wuhi nuchee ni baŋsim o ya tiŋgbani ni mini tiŋduya kamani Carleton University, Ottawa, University of Buffalo, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Rhode Island School of Design.

 Works and publications 




Olujimi, Kambui. Zulu Time; essays by Sampada Aranke, Gregory Volk, and Leah Kolb. Madison, WI: Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. 2017. Exhibition Catalogue.
Olujimi, Kambui. Walk With Me; essays by Jasmine Wahi and Christopher Myers. Newark, NJ: Project for Empty Space. 2020. Exhibition Monograph.

 Sources 
 Harris, Thomas A, and Kambui Olujimi. Through a Lens Darkly: Philosophy of the Artist. , 2014. Internet resource.

 Kundivihira 

 External links 

 Kambui Olujimi at Museum of Modern Art


Pubu:Lahabaya zaa
Category:American artists
Category:Living people
Category:1976 births
Category:People from Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn
Category:Columbia University School of the Arts alumni
Category:Bard College alumni
Category:Parsons College alumni
Category:Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture alumni