AZIKIWE MOHAMMED
Lives and works in TriBeCa, NYC
EDUCATION
BFA, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 2001-2005
SOLO EXHBITIONS
2025
Trains, Buses and the 4 C’s, Ruth Arts, Milwaukee, WI
2024
Trains, Buses and the 4 C’s, Project for Empty Space, Newark, NJ
2023
Potential Futures #15, Quest to Learn Middle School, as presented by The
Highline, New York, NY
First Excursions, First Horizons, The Highline, New York, NY
Leroy’s Luncheon, Canada Gallery, New York, NY
2022
because i am that, California African American
Museum, Los Angeles, CA, with Adee Roberson
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
2017
Jimmys Thrift Of New Davonhaime, Knockdown
Center, Maspeth, NY
Armor Photo Studio: House Visits Welcome, Long Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Project A Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica,
MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
From Now: A Collection In Context, Studio Museum in Harlem, Manhattan,
NY
First Excursions, First Horizons, DeBoer Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Working Knowledge, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY
Unfixxxed, Elijah Wheat Showroom, Newburgh, NY
Project A Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica,
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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
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
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
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
The Living Room Kitchen, The Andrew Freedman Home, Bronx, NY
2019
The Autotopographers, John
Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Counterpublic, The Luminary, St. Louis,
MO
I Am My Story, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
2018
Record Keepers, Duke Hall Gallery, James Madison University
Open World, MoCA Arlington, 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
2017
Black Is A Color, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Harlem Postcards, Spring 2017, Studio Museum In Harlem, New York, NY
Fondo Malerba, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy
RELATED PROFESSIONAL WORK
Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY – Installation /
Mixed Media Teacher
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
2025 + 2026 – Pasaquan Residency,
Buena Vista, GA
2024 –Working Artist
Fellowship, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY
2023 + 2024 – The Project For Empty Space,
Newark, NJ
2019 + 2021 – The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
2019 – Mana Fine Arts @ 777 International
Mall, Miami, FL
2019 – The Luminary,
St. Louis, WA
2016 – 2017 - mana BSMT @ Mana Fine Arts,
Jersey City, New Jersey
2015 – 2016 - Pioneer Works, Red Hook, Brooklyn
AWARDS
2024 –
Ruth Foundation Core Grant
2023 – Foundation for Contemporary Art Grants to Artists
2023 – Ruth Foundation Artists Choice Award
2021 – Rauschenberg Artists Fund Grant
2016 - Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist
Grant
2015 - Art Matters Grant
BIBLIOGRAPHY
www.artforum.com/features/project-a-black-planet-sound-ivy-g-wilson-1234729861/
Artforum, 2025
www.news.artnet.com/art-world/project-for-empty-space-azikiwe-mohammed-2566641
Artnet, November, 2024
www.studiomuseum.org/magazine/studio-visit-greetings-from-new-davonhaime-azikiwe-mohammed
Studio Museum In Harlem
Magazine, November, 2023
www.hyperallergic.com/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.numero.com/en/art-design/who-is-azikiwe-mohammed-artist-and-activist-for-a-fairer-world/
Numero
Magazine, October, 2021
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
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The Creative Independent, June, 2020
www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/arts/design/spring-break-volta-art-fair.html
New York Times, March, 2020
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Forbes, July, 2019
www.burnaway.org/magazine/azikiwe-mohammed-interview/
Burnaway, May, 2019
www.hyperallergic.com/an-artist-builds-his-vision-of-black-prosperity/
Hyperallergic, May, 2019
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-03/wakanda-new-davonhaime-yearning-for-a-new-black-city
Citylab, May, 2018
www.artforum.com/features/azikiwe-mohammed-talks-with-claudia-rankine-237183/
Artforum, January, 2018
www.i-d.co/article/artist-azikiwe-mohammed-is-building-a-fictional-town-for-black-americans-who-dont-feel-safe/
i-D, January, 2017
www.bombmagazine.org/articles/2017/01/27/portfolio-25/
Bomb
Magazine, January, 2017
www.hyperallergic.com/springbreak-art-show-trades-labyrinthine-rooms-for-immersive-installations/
Hyperallergic, May, 2017