Kambui Olujimi est né et a grandi à Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn et a validé un MFA à la Columbia University de New York City. Le travail de Kambui Olujimi remet en question les modes de pensée établis qui sont généralement considérés comme « inévitables. » Cette recherche se concrétise à travers des œuvres interdisciplinaires prenant la forme de sculptures, d’installations, de photographies, de textes, de vidéos et performances. Parmi ses expositions personnelles : Zulu Time, au Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, A Life in Pictures, au MIT List Visual Arts Center, Solastalgia, à la Cue Arts Foundation et Wayward North à Art in General. Aux États-Unis son travail a été présenté au Sundance Film Festival, au Studio Museum in Harlem, au MoMA P.S.1, au Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. et au Mass MoCA.

 

Kambui Olujimi was born and raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn and received his MFA from Columbia University in New York City. 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, video and performance. His solo exhibitions include; Zulu Time, at Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, A Life in Pictures, at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Solastalgia, at Cue Arts Foundation, and Wayward North at Art in General. His works have premiered nationally at The Sundance Film Festival, Studio Museum in Harlem, MoMA P.S.1, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and Mass MoCA.