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Taking a break from this space for a while for a much needed reset from the noise.

Back in November the touring exhibition Memoria opened at the Muncab in Salvador, Brazil. I’m ever thankful to the Artness wonder team @nadineh_jackiesp and @celine_seror for bringing me on board all the way back in 2021. Naturally the works presented have evolved along with the exhibition over the years but as always I believe in alignment with what is needed in the spaces the works travel to. And so I’m deeply grateful and honoured to have ‘Stories of our mothers, 2024’ and ‘Oculus/ The Third Eye, 2019’ in conversation with each other with my fellow Memoria artists’ works and with the people of Salvador. I hope new stories are birthed from these interactions. 💫💫 “Memória: relatos de uma outra história”, continues at the Museu Nacional da Cultura Afro-Brasileira till March 1st.

Present in the textile works of Enam Gbewonyo (@enamgd ) is a deep dedication not only to the rich traditions and contemporary possibilities of craft but to its healing power as a means of exploring identity, reconciling with histories and legacies of colonialism and confronting systems of oppression. While they contrast in size, a tapestry-style wall piece and an installation anchored by a majestic suspended textile work, both of Gbewonyo’s works currently on view in Salt of the Earth display a layered collection of textures, materials, and imagery that are steeped in history and collective/personal memory. Honoring traditional practices working with textile practices, Gbewonyo’s work masterfully takes the medium into new territories and highlights the artform as a necessary tool in overcoming historical trauma, keeping time-honored practices alive and revitalized, and creating community through healing. Enam Gbewonyo’s works “Amedada ƒe lɔ̃lɔ̃ kple ŋku ɖoɖo le avɔ me II, (A mother’s love and memory in cloth II)” (2025) and “Unmasked & Embalmed- Tending Mother’s Wounds” (2020-2025) are on view in Salt of the Earth until February 28th, 2026. — 🖼️ Artworks: 1) “Amedada ƒe lɔ̃lɔ̃ kple ŋku ɖoɖo le avɔ me II, (A mother’s love and memory in cloth II)”, 2025 digitally printed and tea-stained silk organza, digitally printed and tea-stained silk chiffon, 2) “Unmasked & Embalmed- Tending Mother’s Wounds”, 2020-2025 Used nylon tights, digitally printed and tea-stained silk organza, iron on transfer, cotton, and real gold thread

With immense gratitude to team @artmelanated and the Savage Emerging Artist competition judges I’m excited to share my selection as one of the finalists. It’s such a stellar lineup, the inaugural exhibition is gonna be special! See you in LA 💫💫💫 #REPOST • @artmelanated SAVAGE FINALISTS ANNOUNCEMENT! We were overwhelmed by the global response to our inaugural SAVAGE Emerging Artist Competition. Artists from around the world submitted powerful, thoughtful work, and after careful consideration, our esteemed panel of judges selected the artists moving forward as finalists. Big thanks to our judges: @hillharper @kendallhurns @teddyrashaan @ayeshaselden @joysimmonsdivadoc @mashondatifrere @terrelltilford @artbywak Congratulations to our SAVAGE finalists: Ahkeem Shaw @ahkeemshaw , Asia Estelle @asia.orf , Crystal Noir @crystalnoir.art , Danielle Scott @artistdaniellescott , Devin Wesley @devinwesleyy , Enam Gbewonyo Garry Grant @garryfgrant , Jess Owens-Young @truthofstrength , Jonathan Barber @jonneebizz , Kim Alexis Newton @kimalexisnewton , Rikiesha Metzger @rikiesha_metzger To every artist who submitted: we see you. Your work matters, your voice matters, and this journey is far from over. Keep pushing forward! The depth of talent we witnessed makes one thing clear, the future is ours, and we will be doing more of this. Join us in Los Angeles as we celebrate bold voices, community, and our shared love for art. 📍 Opening Valentine’s Day February 14 | @bandofvices | Los Angeles

Kicking off 2026 with this one 💫💫 with thanks to curator @josefinhatet - #REPOST @strikeslip.gallery : Save the date! Strike-Slip Gallery is thrilled to announce our next group exhibition, Salt of the Earth. Please join us at the gallery on Saturday, January 10th, from 3-6pm for the opening reception! - ABOUT: The biblical term “salt of the earth” refers to one who is honest, grounded, and essential. In our present time, people fitting this bill seem like a rarity: ours is a funhouse mirror simulation, all gesture but no gist. Art still offers one of the last chances of direct encounter: where materials matter, and form impacts us, grounding experience back into the world of things. We feel the steady, insistent pulse that is older than language. It is not mystical but chemical: a rhythm of extraction, labor, entropy, and rebirth. Our body recognizes it before our mind. Join us, and listen to the pulse. - curator, Josefin Lundahl FEATURING: Rafi Ajl @the_rafi_ajl Keith Boadwee @keithboadwee Ocean Escalanti @oldisthegrave Enam Gbewonyo Maddy Inez @maddy_inez Nancy Nguyen @oaht.n Trina Michelle Robinson @trina_m_robinson Jenny Sharaf @jennysharaf Taravat Talepasand @artistvat Curated by Josefin Lundhal @josefinhatet - Salt of the Earth runs from January 3rd until February 28th, 2026. Flyer image: Nancy Nguyen, Untitled 2, 2023

A few install shots from a 2025 highlight - the Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Award exhibition. On display was my piece, ‘Lɔ̃lɔ̃ kple ŋku ɖoɖo, amedada ƒe nutinya dzi (Love and memory a mother’s story), 2025’, configured slightly differently from the last install. Slide 1: 📷 @kristi_chan 🙏🏾🙏🏾 Slide 2-3: Claire S. Burke

Extremely grateful and honoured to share I am a 2025 Cadogan award recipient!!! The Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art awards recognise Bay Area MFA students fostering their development. Looking forward to celebrating alongside fellow cohort awardees Alexa Burrell @fogapocalypse , Vincent Chong AKA Crystal Monkey @crystalmonkeycalligraphy and Bailey Scieszka @bailioni and the talented awardees of other programs. Join us on Thursday 6 November at @somarts for the opening reception of the award exhibition! 💫🥂 Exhibition Dates: November 7–December 7, 2025 Opening Reception and Awards Ceremony: November 6, 7–9 PM PST 🔗 link in bio to RSVP

Eight artists to watch are featured in Bridging Futures, benefiting @futureofafrica . This stunning group show, which includes @lornasimpson , @sanfordbiggers and @kehindewiley , raises essential funding for programs that mentor African youth to cultivate hope, build character, and gain valuable skills to transform their lives. This group of artists is spectacular! Many have works in major museum collections. All are artists to watch and consider collecting. 🗓 Preview Exhibition: Storage Gallery (@storage.archive ), Tribeca, NYC Thursday, October 30, 6–10pm 📧 RSVP: [email protected] Curated by Nkechi Ebubedike. Online catalog link in bio. Enam Gbewonyo @enamgd British-Ghanaian artist exploring identity, womanhood, and healing through craft and performance. Founder of the Black British Female Artist Collective and fellow of Kehinde Wiley’s Black Rock Senegal residency. Currently in the Stanford MFA program. Jerome Lagarrigue @jlagarrigue French-American painter based in Brooklyn whose portraits explore identity, power, and visibility. A Rhode Island School of Design graduate with work in the collections of George Lucas and The Dean Collection (@aliciakeys & @therealswizzz ). Nkechi Ebubedike @artbynkechi Nigerian-American artist and curator based in Brooklyn. Holds degrees from Central Saint Martins and Carnegie Mellon, with studies at École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Permanent collection Hessel Museum of Art at Bars College Michele Pred @michelepred Swedish-American conceptual artist addressing equal pay and reproductive rights. Work at the @vamuseum and @bampfa . Rodney Ewing @ledette is a multidisciplinary artist whose research-driven practice examines overlooked histories of the Black Diaspora. Africanus Okokon @africanuso US-born Ghanaian-Nigerian artist working across film, performance, and printmaking. Explores memory and transformation. Yale MFA. Anna Sidana @annasidana Indian-born painter whose large-scale oils explore memory and heritage. MFA from @sfaiofficial . Mikael Owunna @mikaelowunna Nigerian-American multimedia artist merging technology & African cosmologies. Exhibited internationally & collected by the @smithsonian .

This is super special, so grateful to curator and writer @auttriannaward , gassed that we finally get to work together!! Join us on Thursday November 6th at @sfmoma , for Reclaiming Culture, an evening of film screenings (I’ll be introducing Gardez L’Eau to the Bay Area ), conversation, live music and performance in celebration of Suzanne Jackson’s current show, ‘What is Love?’ #REPOST• @auttriannaward ✨ Excited to share Reclaiming Culture — an evening I organized honoring Suzanne Jackson: What Is Love? at @sfmoma . The program features short films by Enam Gbewonyo, Aline Motta, Martine Syms, Zora Neale Hurston, and myself — followed by a conversation with @enamgd and a live dance and music performance celebrating Black creative expression and diasporic traditions through the @black.banjo.reclamation project. 🎬 Film screening & conversation: 6 p.m. — Wattis Theater 🎶 Performance: 7:15 p.m. Presented as part of SFMOMA’s First Thursday public programming. Courtesy of the Zora Neale Hurston Trust, Library of Congress. Ticket links in Bio #SFMOMA #SuzanneJackson #ReclaimingCulture #BlackArt #DiasporaArts #Film #PerformanceArt #auttriannaward

Immense gratitude to the @blackfemarc team and @akworkorthompson for inviting me to be part of this stellar show organised in collaboration with @depart_consultancy and currently on view at @nowgalleryse10 London crew go see it!! #REPOST • @depart_consultancy ✨Earth, Memory, and the Spaces We Inhabit: Matrilineal Legacies in Contemporary Architecture. Part of The London Festival of Architecture 2025-Voices. Co-curated by @blackfemarc and @depart_consultancy the exhibition reimagines architecture as an act of listening, by exploring matrilineal legacies through sound, sculpture, and architecture to boldly challenge the traditional boundaries of architecture. Guided by the themes of ecology, leisure and sustenance, the exhibition features: 🧱 three architectural interventions, 🏺 sculptural and design objects by a series of incredible diasporic artists 🎵 a sonic installation by @edanghana @tmskdj , and 🎥 cinematic portraits by Liberian filmmaker @askphotos_ The exhibition is a collaboration between BFA, DepArt @depart_consultancy Ɛdan Spatial Laboratory @edanghana @carinatenewaa and Cianeh A. Kpukuyou @askphotos_ Supported by the Public Discourse program at re:arc institute @rearc.institute for the London Festival of Architecture @londonfestivalofarchitecture 2025. Part of a series of takeovers at NOW Gallery @nowgalleryse10 , Greenwich Featured artists: @studioneida @studio.mafa @camilleprovost_ @enamgd @simonebrewster_london @ibijoke.img @hive_earth @jeanne.autranedorh @occupiedbythelense @kouyate_clay @nzingabm @olufemihinson @tosin.oshinowo @sahra_hersi With a library curated by @seedarchives Fabrication by @_social_constructs_ @socialdesigns_ 📸 @nowgalleryse10 @albertoromano_ph

Happening back across the pond! Huge thanks to @alicekettle and Professor Lesley Millar MBE for including me in #SOFTPOWER at Royal West Academy, Bristol 🧶🧶🧶 @art_tafeta #REPOST • @rwabristol 🧵 From 17 May, come and explore our Summer exhibition, Soft Power: lives told through textiles 🧵 Curated by internationally renowned textile art pioneer, Professor Alice Kettle and curator of international textiles, Professor Lesley Millar MBE, Soft Power explores ways in which textiles are used as a way of communicating the human experience, from personal stories to collective experiences to making bold statements about empowerment and change. Featured artists include: ◾ Anurita Chandola ◾ Mona Craven ◾ Rachel Fallon ◾ Sarah-Joy Ford ◾ Enam Gbewonyo ◾ Shelly Goldsmith ◾ Pippa Hetherington ◾ Kani Kamil, Sabine Kaner ◾ Alice Kettle ◾ Reiko Koga ◾ Phillipa Lawrence ◾ Lise Bjorne Linnert ◾ Susie MacMurray ◾ Alice Maher ◾ Suzumi Noda ◾ Jane Poulton ◾ Margaret Nicholson ◾ Paula Reason ◾ Erin M Riley ◾ Lasmin Salmon ◾ Amneh Shaikh-Farooqui ◾ Ellen Sharples ◾ Kari Steihaug ◾ Maryam Wahid ◾ Audrey Walker. 🔗 Head to our #linkinbio to find out more Key dates for your diaries: 📅 16 May, Curators of Soft Power: In Conversation (Pay what you can) 📅17 May – 10 August: Exhibition open 📅 10 July: Summer After Hours at the RWA featuring music from Diverse Artists Network

These beauts (Luminous Black Matter I & II, 2024) are currently on view with @art_tafeta at Dallas Art Fair. As ever I’m in esteemed company with the TAFETA family @babajideolatunji @artbynkechi @adeniyiolagunjuhaastrup @alainjosephineartist and @austin.uzor.7 as well as @ifeanyioganwu and my textile sis @ibijoke.img and our Oga @yinkashonibarestudio A stunning presentation! #REPOST • @art_tafeta Sunday at the @dallasartfair , where @art_tafeta presents contemporary works from established and emerging artists of African descent. Join us at booth G7. 📸 works by @enamgd