{"id":4779,"date":"2018-04-06T21:45:14","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T21:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/kambui-olujimi\/"},"modified":"2018-08-21T01:32:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T01:32:18","slug":"kambui-olujimi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/kambui-olujimi\/","title":{"rendered":"Kambui Olujimi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7470 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_7402-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_7402.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_7402-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_7402-2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_7402-3.jpg 696w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_7402-4.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_7402-5.jpg 420w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_7402-6.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_7402-7.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/kambuiolujimi.com\/\">Kambui Olujimi<\/a> was born and raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn and received his MFA from Columbia University in New York City.&nbsp;Olujimi&rsquo;s work challenges established modes of thinking that commonly function as &ldquo;inevitabilities.&rdquo; This pursuit takes shape through interdisciplinary bodies of work spanning sculpture, installation, photography, writing, video and performance.&nbsp;His solo exhibitions include;&nbsp;<em>A Life in Pictures,&nbsp;<\/em>at MIT List Visual Arts Center,&nbsp;<em>Solastalgia<\/em>, at Cue Arts Foundation, and&nbsp;<em>Wayward North<\/em>&nbsp;at Art in General. His works have premiered nationally at The Sundance Film Festival, Studio Museum in Harlem, Museum of Modern Art,&nbsp;Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Lincoln Center for Performing Arts, and Mass MoCA. Internationally his work has been featured at The Jim Thompson Art Center in Bangkok;&nbsp;&nbsp;Museo Nacional Reina Sofia in Madrid; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Finland and Para Site in Hong Kong among others. Olujimi has been awarded residencies from Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture,&nbsp;Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and Civitella&nbsp;Ranieri. He has received grants and commissions from numerous institutions including A Blade of Grass, The Jerome Foundation, and MTA Arts &amp; Design for the City of New York.&nbsp;&nbsp;Newspapers&nbsp;and journals such as The New Yorker, Art Forum, Art in America, Brooklyn Rail, The New York Times and Modern Painters have written about Olujimi&rsquo;s artwork.&nbsp;Monographs on his past project include&nbsp;<em>Walk the Plank<\/em>&nbsp;(2006),&nbsp;<em>Winter in America<\/em>&nbsp;(in collaboration with Hank Willis Thomas, 2006),&nbsp;<em>The Lost Rivers Index<\/em>&nbsp;(2007),<em>Wayward North<\/em>&nbsp;(2012), and&nbsp;<em>Zulu Time&nbsp;<\/em>(2017).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7471 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/03_K-Olujimi-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/03_K-Olujimi.jpg 683w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/03_K-Olujimi-1.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/03_K-Olujimi-2.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/03_K-Olujimi-3.jpg 696w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/03_K-Olujimi-4.jpg 280w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/03_K-Olujimi-5.jpg 827w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mercy Doesn&rsquo;t Grow On Trees, 2016 Wood, glass, hair, gold leaf, ratchet straps 150 x 48 x 30 inches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7472 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/05_K-Olujimi-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/05_K-Olujimi.jpg 683w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/05_K-Olujimi-1.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/05_K-Olujimi-2.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/05_K-Olujimi-3.jpg 696w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/05_K-Olujimi-4.jpg 280w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/05_K-Olujimi-5.jpg 827w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">I Knew You Before You Was Born, 2016 Wood, brass, glass walking canes, foot stool, faux pearls 163 x 84 x 16 inches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kambui Olujimi was born and raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn and received his MFA from Columbia University in New York City.&nbsp;Olujimi&rsquo;s work challenges established modes of thinking that commonly function as &ldquo;inevitabilities.&rdquo; This pursuit takes shape through interdisciplinary bodies of work spanning sculpture, installation, photography, writing, video and performance.&nbsp;His solo exhibitions include;&nbsp;A Life in Pictures,&nbsp;at MIT [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-interview","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4805,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4779\/revisions\/4805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}