Azikiwe Mohammed

Azikiwe Mohammed is a crafter who builds physical spaces that include Blackness and the stories of the people of this land. Sometimes that land is physical, and other times it lives in our bodies. These attempts at land shapings have taken place at Canada Gallery, NY; Transformer, Washington, D.C.; The High Line, NY; California African American Museum, LA; Fairmount Water Works, Philadelphia, PA; John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; and MoMA PS1, NY, among others. Mohammed is the recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant (2023), a Rauschenberg Artists Fund grant (2021), a Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant (2016), an Art Matters Foundation Award (2015), and, via his Black Painters Academy, has received support from The Ruth Foundation. He lives in New York, and has his studio in Newark, as part of Project for Empty Space.