Critical Issues Lecture: Dozie Kanu

Join the Henry and the University of Washington's School of Art + Art History + Design for the 2022 Critical Issues Lecture Series! Taking place on Fridays during Winter quarter, the series is held online and open to all. Attend weekly sessions alongside degree-seeking students to learn about contemporary art and ideas directly from the makers. 

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Born and raised in Houston, Texas to Nigerian immigrant parents, Dozie Kanu initially intended to study film directing but shifted focus to production design for film and theatre, receiving his BFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 2016. Dozie Kanu’s first solo institutional exhibition was held at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2019. Kanu’s research focuses on a concept of sculpture that looks into the limits of form, functionality, materiality, and usefulness often filtered through a personal lens drawn from the artist’s lived experiences. His singular visual language criticizes western art history canons, subtly and elegantly revealing in the objects narratives involving colonialism and identity, focusing on their diasporic condition. His works resist classification and exist concurrently as communicative or performative objects. He has recently extended these inquiries into photography.