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 Highline, NY; California African American Museum, LA; Fairmount Water Works, Philadelphia, PA; John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; NY and MoMa PS1, Queens, NY, among others.

Mohammed is the recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant in 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. In 2022, he was featured on Art21’s New York Close Up digital-film series on artists living and working in New York City. Azikiwe Mohammed lives in New York, NY and has his studio in Newark as part of Project for Empty Space.

Mohammed is a Working Artist Fellow. The Working Artist Fellowship is part of The Rockefeller Foundation’s The Artist Impact Initiative.