Azikiwe Mohammed

Azikiwe Mohammed (1983, New York City, USA) lives and works in New York. He graduated from Bard College, New York in 2005 where he studied photography and fine arts.His multidisciplinary practice, which merges painting, photography, sculpture, performance, and found ephemera, prioritizes, at its core, the experiences, needs, and subjectivity of people of color in America. The artist hopes to provide a “service” to Black people through his work, to create objects and experiences that allows them to be seen and to make space to listen.Azikiwe Mohammed’s work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally in venues including: the Yeh Art Gallery at St. John’s University, New York, New York, USA (2021); David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA (2020); Anna Zorina Gallery, New York, New York, USA (2020); Elijah Wheat Showroom, Newburgh, New York, USA (2020);  We Buy Gold, New York, New York, USA (2020); SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, USA (2019); Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA (2019);  MoMa PS1, Queens, New York, USA (2018); Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA (2018); Ace Hotel Chicago, Illinois, USA (2018); the Knockdown Center, Maspeth, New York, New York, USA (2017) and Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA (2017) among others.Mohammed received a Rauschenberg Artists Fund Grant in 2021; the Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant in 2016 and the Art Matters Grant in 2015.