Dozie Kanu is an American artist. His work involves sculptural objects and installations that deal with limits of form, materiality, functionality and utilitarianism.

Early life and education

Kanu was born in Houston, Texas in 1993 and his parents are both Nigerian immigrants. After studying film directing, Kanu received a bachelor of fine arts degree from School of Visual Arts, New York in 2016. His first museum solo exhibition was held at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2019. He presently lives and works in Portugal.

Dozie Kanu

Solo exhibitions

2022

Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich, CH

Cordyceps Gaud Adversary, Neuer Essener Kunstverein, Essen, DE

Tinted Spirit, Project Native Informant, London, UK

2021

Blood Type, Performance Space New York City, NY

to prop and ignore, Manual Arts, Los Angeles, CA

value order [gentrify.pt], Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon, PT

2020

Recoil, International Waters (with Cudelice Brazelton IV), New York, NY

Owe Deed, One Deep, Project Native Informant, London, UK

2019

FUNCTION, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

ARS JUS PAX, JTG Detroit Project, Detroit, MI

2018

Humane Alternatives, Soft Opening, London, UK

References

External links

Official Website of Dozie Kanu

1993 births

Living people

Dozie Kanu