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Africanus Okokon, Penumbra, Perfume

Africanus OkokonPenumbra, Perfume, 2026

Oil, silkscreen ink, Maillard- reacted coconut milk on canvas on panel

40 x 30 in

About the artist

works with moving image, sound, performance, installation, painting, sculpture, and printmaking to explore the dialectics of forgetting and memory in relation to mediated cultural and personal histories. He is interested in questions around language, translation, cultural transformation, decay and death as they relate to recorded media and imagery. Africanus Okokon (b. 1989, Saint Paul, MN) received an MFA from Yale University and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. His work has been exhibited at von ammon co in Washington, D.C.; and Perrotin, Hesse Flatow, Helena Anrather, Lyles and King, and Sean Kelly in New York, NY. In 2021, Okokon was awarded a NXTHVN Studio Fellowship. His work has been featured and reviewed in The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Public Radio, Frieze, and Artforum. Okokon lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island where he is an Assistant Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design.

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