AZIKIWE MOHAMMED
Lives and works in TriBeCa, NYC
EDUCATION
BFA, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 2001-2005
SOLO
EXHBITIONS
2022
Solitudinal Arrivals, De Boer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Forever Is Twice As Long From The
Ground, Anna Zorina,
New York, NY
Maiden
Voyage II: Heliocentric Forms of Blackness, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
Shared
Words, Split Catfish and Sweet Tea: An Open Platform for Discussion, Transformer, Washington, DC
2021
Big Apple Gifts and Souvenirs, The Seaport, New York, NY
11439
- 39202, Yeh Art Gallery, St. John’s University, Queens, NY
2020
A
Place To Sit With Magnolias, Elijah Wheat Showroom, Newburgh,
NY
396
Wortman Ave, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York, NY
2019
Blackest
Night: A Survey in Blackness, SCAD
Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
90 – 91 + 2011 – 2019, Visions From
Home, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
Auntie / Uncle Julius: Welcome, Always, Public Swim Gallery, New York, NY
2018
Jimmys
Thrift Of New Davonhaime, Ace
Hotel Chicago, Chicago, IL
Black
Labor, Rush Arts, New York, NY
2017
Jimmys
Thrift Of New Davonhaime, Knockdown
Center, Maspeth, NY
Armor
Photo Studio: House Visits Welcome,
Long Gallery, New York, NY
Potential
Futures / Black Receipts, IDIO
Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
TWO
PERSON EXHBITIONS
2022
because i am that, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Killer
Cute: In Two Parts, De Boer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Elegies:
Still Lifes in Contemporary Art, MoAd,
San Francisco, CA + Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA
NADA
Art Fair, Pier 36, New
York, NY
Material
Arts Fair, Mexico
City; Mexico
FCA
Benefit Exhibition, Greene Naftali, New York, NY
A
Question of Vibrancy / Earthly Sight, Eduardo Secci, Firenze
FL, Italy
Hippydrome, Frac Normandie Caen, 14000 Caen, France
2021
Away Message III,
Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, Dallas, TX
POOL: A Social History of Segregation, Fairmount Waterworks, Philadelphia, PA
Untitled
Art Fair, Miami Beach,
FL
Spring
Break Art Show, 625 Madison Ave, New York; NY
Black
Painters Academy at Rashid Johnson’s Red Stage, Creative Time, New York, NY
Fairyland, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami,
FL
This
Is The Day, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art,
Bentonville, AR
In
Good Taste, Dinner
Gallery, New York, NY
2020
Listening
For The Unsaid, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Say It
Loud, Christie’s
Auction House
Welcome
Home: A Sunday Afternoon in Mariel Capana’s Little Stone,
Open Home, Good Weather
Gallery,
North Little Rock, AR
FIVE.,
We Buy Gold
Won’t
You Call Me By My Name, Wassaic Project, New York; NY
Spring
Break Art Show, 625 Madison Ave, New York; NY
Material
Arts Fair, Mexico
City; Mexico
Spring
Break Art Show LA, 757 S Alameda Street, Los Angeles; LA
The
Living Room Kitchen, The Andrew Freedman Home, Bronx; NY
2019
MECA International Art Fair,
Calle La Puntilla, Old San Juan, San Juan;
PR
The Autotopographers, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Landscape
Winter Season, Elsewhere, Brooklyn, NY
Counterpublic, The Luminary, St. Louis, MO
1:54
Contemporary African Art Fair, London,
England
Material
Arts Fair, Mexico City, Mexico
Seattle Art Fair, Seattle,
WA
I Am My Story,
Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
Spring
Break Art Show, 4 Times Square,
New York, NY
2018
Record
Keepers, Duke Hall Gallery, James Madison
University
Open
World, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA
1:54
Lounge Commission, 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY
Come
Together Festival, MoMa PS1, Queens, NY
Black
Is A Color II, Antenna Gallery,
New Orleans, LA
Material
Arts Fair, Mexico City, Mexico
Spring
Break Art Show, 4 Times Square,
New York, NY
2017
Black
Is A Color, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Harlem
Postcards, Spring 2017, Studio
Museum In Harlem, New York, NY
Spring
Break Art Show – BKLYN IMMERSIVE,
City Point, Brooklyn, NY
Spring
Break Art Show, 4 Times Square,
New York, NY
Fondo Malerba, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy
Future
isms, Glass Box Gallery, Seattle, WA
Material
Arts Fair, Mexico City, Mexico
RELATED
PROFESSIONAL WORK
The
New School, New York, NY - Studio Photography / Photoshop Teacher
Educational
Alliance, New York, NY - Black & White Analog Photography Teacher
The Small
Darkroom, New York, NY - Black & White Darkroom Printer
Primary
Photographic, New York, NY – Color / Black & White
Darkroom Printer
Arthur
Elgort, New York, NY - Black & White Darkroom Printer
RESIDENCIES
2021 +
2019 – The
Wassaic Project, Wassaic,
NY
2019 – Mana Fine Arts @ 777
International Mall, Miami, FL
2019 – The Luminary, St.
Louis, WA
2018
Summer – Kickstarter,
Brooklyn, NY
2016 –
2017 - mana
BSMT @ Mana Fine Arts, Jersey City, New Jersey
2015 – 2016 - Pioneer Works, Red Hook, Brooklyn
2013 –
2014
– ESKFF @ Mana Fine Arts,
Jersey City, New Jersey
AWARDS
2021 –
Rauschenberg
Artists Fund Grant
2016 -
Rema
Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant
2015 - Art Matters Grant
BIBLIOGRAPHY
www.hyperallergic.com/749303/your-concise-new-york-art-guide-for-august-2022/
Hyperallergic,
August, 2022
www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/05/13/art-gallery-shows-dc-area/
Washington Post, May,
2022
www.art21.org/artist/azikiwe-mohammed/
Art 21, March,
2022
www.lithub.com/14-contemporary-artists-on-how-reading-influences-their-work/
Literary Hub, March,
2022
www.foundwork.art/dialogues/azikiwe-mohammed
Foundwork, May, 2021
www.nytimes.com/2021/04/20/arts/design/azikiwe-mohammed-yeh-art-gallery.html
New York Times, April 2021
www.frieze.com/article/five-inescapable-moods-moment
Frieze Magazine, July, 2020
www.news.artnet.com/art-world/azikiwe-mohammed-profile-1890055
Artnet, July, 2020
The Creative Independent, June, 2020
www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/arts/design/spring-break-volta-art-fair.html
New York Times, March, 2020
Forbes, July,
2019
www.burnaway.org/magazine/azikiwe-mohammed-interview/
Burnaway, May, 2019
www.hyperallergic.com/496406/an-artist-builds-his-vision-of-black-prosperity/
Hyperallergic, May,
2019
www.popphoto.com/azikiwe-mohammed-is-exhausted-and-pleased/
Popular Photography, April, 2019
www.juxtapoz.com/news/installation/a-studio-visit-and-interview-with-azikiwe-mohammed/
Juxtapox, November,
2018
www.citylab.com/equity/2018/05/wakanda-new-davonhaime-the-yearning-for-a-new-black-city/559463/
Citylab, May, 2018
www.artforum.com/inprint/issue=201801&id=73191
Artforum, January, 2018
i-D,
January, 2017
www.bombmagazine.org/article/3539124/portfolio
Bomb Magazine, January, 2017
Hyperallergic, May, 2017
www.artforum.com/passages/id=69347
Artforum, June, 2017
www.artspace.com/magazine/news_events/art-fairs/best-of-spring-break-2016-53566
Artspace, March, 2016
www.artspace.com/magazine/interviews_features/field-trip/azikiwe-mohammed-field-trip-53020
Artspace,
March, 2015