KJ Abudu Read Bio Collapse
KJ Abudu is a curator and critic based between New York, London, and Lagos. Informed by anti/post/de-colonial theory, queer theory, African philosophy, and Black radical thought, his writings and exhibitions focus on critical art and intellectual practices from the Global South (particularly Africa and its diasporas) responding to the world-historical conditions produced by colonial modernity. Recent exhibitions include “Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management” at Artists Space and e-flux Screening Room, New York, May 2023, and “Living with Ghosts” at Pace Gallery, London, 2022, and the Wallach Art Gallery, New York, 2022. Abudu is the editor of Living with Ghosts: A Reader (Pace Publishing, 2022). Abudu will also be curating “Traces of Ecstasy” for the fourth edition of the Lagos Biennial in 2024. His writings have appeared in Frieze, e-flux, Mousse, Tate Etc., and numerous other publications and exhibition catalogs. KJ recently joined the curatorial team at the Swiss Institute (SI), New York, and will be overseeing their public programs and residencies.
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This text might be framed as an offering, an attempt at releasing latent animist lines of possibility for what late twentieth-century works like Bronze Head might do for us in our current climate of rising anti-queer sentiment, on the African continent and elsewhere.
