Precious Okoyomon (b. 1993) is a Nigerian-American poet and artist living and working in New York City. They have had institutional solo exhibitions at the LUMA Westbau in Zurich (2018), the Museum Für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt (2020), Performance Space New York (2021), and the Aspen Art Museum (2021). Okoyomon was included in the 59th Venice Biennale (2022) and the 58th Belgrade Biennial (2021) as well as group exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2021), and LUMA Arles, France (2022). Major performances have been commissioned by the Serpentine, London (2019), and the Institute of Contemporary Art, London (2019). Their second book of poetry, “But Did U Die?” will be co-published by the Serpentine and Wonder Press in 2022. A 2020 artist-in-residence at the LUMA Arles, Okoyomon is the 2021 recipient of the Frieze Art Fair Artist Award and the 2022 Chanel Next Art Prize.
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Join the Johnson Museum of Art and Nigerian-American poet, sculptor, and avant-garde chef Precious Okoyomon for a participatory artist’s talk exploring themes of migration, dispossession, and redress. Okoyomon’s large-scale, immersive artworks are especially concerned with the entangled fate of humans, plants, and animal species as they move from place to place across the planet. Approaching art-making like a poet, Okoyomon mines the metaphorical associations of all manner of found objects and raw materials – from kudzu vine to lambswool – to elicit new reflections upon our complicated histories. Okoyomon was born in England in 1993; raised in Nigeria and the U.S.; and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Okoyomon’s artist’s talk is the second in a series with the campus-wide Migrations Global Grand Challenge, part of Global Cornell, with support from the Mellon Foundation’s Just Futures Initiative.
Okoyomon’s artist’s talk is the second in a series with the campus-wide Migrations Global Grand Challenge, part of Global Cornell, with support from the Mellon Foundation’s Just Futures Initiative.
What You'll Learn
- Insight into the creative practice of a major new artist
- Fresh perspectives on histories of migration in a global context
- Contemporary reflections on relationships between humans and both plant and animal species through an artist’s vision
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Poet and artist
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2022-09-01 17:152022-09-01 19:00Precious OkoyomonAdd to CalendarJoin the Johnson Museum of Art and Nigerian-American poet, sculptor, and avant-garde chef Precious Okoyomon for a participatory artist’s talk exploring themes of migration, dispossession, and redress. Okoyomon’s large-scale, immersive artworks are especially concerned with the entangled fate of humans, plants, and animal species as they move from place to place across the planet. Approaching art-making like a poet, Okoyomon mines the metaphorical associations of all manner of found objects and raw materials – from kudzu vine to lambswool – to elicit new reflections upon our complicated histories. Okoyomon was born in England in 1993; raised in Nigeria and the U.S.; and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Okoyomon’s artist’s talk is the second in a series with the campus-wide Migrations Global Grand Challenge, part of Global Cornell, with support from the Mellon Foundation’s Just Futures Initiative.https://ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/view/K090122/primaryAmerica/New_YorkeCornell
Okoyomon’s artist’s talk is the second in a series with the campus-wide Migrations Global Grand Challenge, part of Global Cornell, with support from the Mellon Foundation’s Just Futures Initiative.https://ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/view/K090122/primaryAmerica/New_YorkeCornell
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