Dozie Kanu (b. 1993, Houston, TX) is based in Santarém, Portugal. His research focuses on a concept of sculpture that looks at the production of objects in which a tension between their use and their history, memory, and materiality is embedded. Kanu’s visual language criticizes Western art history canons, subtly and elegantly revealing in the objects narratives involving colonialism and identity, focusing on their diasporic condition. Selected exhibitions include: value order [gentrify.pt], Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon, Portugal (2021); to prop and ignore, Manual Arts, Los Angeles (2021); Recoil (with Cudelice Brazelton IV), International Waters, Brooklyn (2020); Owe Deed, One Deep, Project Native Informant, London (2020); Enzo Mari, Triennale Milano, Italy (2020); Crack Up—Crack Down, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland (2020); FUNCTION, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2019); Transformer: A Rebirth of Wonder, 180 The Strand, London (2019); and Midtown, organized by Salon 94 and Maccarone Gallery, Lever House, New York (2017).
(as of 2022)
