Dozie Kanu

Dozie Kanu

BornNationalityBased In
1993American/NigerianNew York City, Santarém
Biography

Appropriating found objects and refashioning them to new aesthetics, Dozie Kanu creates sculptures and photography that are inherently disobedient and stubbornly slippery. They resist classification and exist instead as communicative or performative objects. Kanu’s ongoing investigation into the limits of form, functionality, materiality and usefulness are often filtered through a personal lens drawn from the artist’s lived experiences. In the artist’s debut solo exhibition at Project Native Informant, Owe Deed, One Deep, 2020, every sculpture remixes and modifies found objects, with the visible rust as a reminder of how readily items are discarded once they are deemed no longer productive. The repurposing of objects deemed useless, the artist honours and reanimates the people whose labour gave them function. In extending the lives of these unwanted items, he perpetuates the existence of those who brought them into being. His memorialisation is a site of collective mourning which has not yet ceased to exist, acknowledging that the pathways and legacies of the oppressive systems of the past continue to characterize the present. ...

Selected Artworks
Chair [iii] Commission
Dozie KanuChair [iii] Commission, 201894 x 48.3 x 42cmPrice on Request
Healthy Minds Must Grow, Watch From The Bleachers
Dozie KanuHealthy Minds Must Grow, Watch From The Bleachers, 2020143 x 88 x 202cmPrice on Request
Shrine On (Use a Pillow)
Dozie KanuShrine On (Use a Pillow), 2019106.7 x 69.9 x 67.3cmPrice on Request
hemorrhaged and made deaf
Dozie Kanuhemorrhaged and made deaf, 202062 x 58 x 82cmPrice on Request
AB (Blood Type)
Dozie KanuAB (Blood Type), 202144.5 x 36.8 x 36.8cmPrice on Request
negative (Blood Type)
Dozie Kanunegative (Blood Type), 202157.1 x 38.1 x 43.5cmPrice on Request
Headboard (Abject Twin)
Dozie KanuHeadboard (Abject Twin), 2021181.6 x 107.3 x 29.2cmPrice on Request
At The Moment
Dozie KanuAt The Moment, 2021142.2 x 116.8 x 55.9cmPrice on Request
Chair [ xiii ] (Stand Up) (Ja Rule)
Dozie KanuChair [ xiii ] (Stand Up) (Ja Rule), 2019119.5 x 64 x 54.5cmPrice on Request
Bench on 84s
Dozie KanuBench on 84s, 201752.1 x 264.2 x 45.7cmPrice on Request
Chair [ v ] (Electric Chair)
Dozie KanuChair [ v ] (Electric Chair), 2018Price on Request
Emo State
Dozie KanuEmo State, 202031.5 x 26 x 3.5cmPrice on Request
0’s and 1’s
Dozie Kanu0’s and 1’s, 202054 x 38 x 38cmPrice on Request
merrill-y
Dozie Kanumerrill-y, 202075.5 x 72.5 x 125cmPrice on Request
Headboard Trial
Dozie KanuHeadboard Trial, 202175 x 134cmPrice on Request
Proper Distraction (Mirror)
Dozie KanuProper Distraction (Mirror), 201986.4 x 67.3 x 4.5cmPrice on Request
Prediction
Dozie KanuPrediction, 201960 x 40 x 40cmPrice on Request
teepee home (Pro Impact)
Dozie Kanuteepee home (Pro Impact), 201630.5 x 10 x 10cmPrice on Request
Bhad (Their Newborn’s Crib)
Dozie KanuBhad (Their Newborn’s Crib), 2019114 x 58 x 99cmPrice on Request
hollow tips exhausted forcing light
Dozie Kanuhollow tips exhausted forcing light, 2023157 x 65 x 65cmPrice on Request
fire thumbnail gleam barely aware
Dozie Kanufire thumbnail gleam barely aware, 202373 x 51 x 51cmPrice on Request
memories let me be (adornment slaughtered)
Dozie Kanumemories let me be (adornment slaughtered), 202370 x 104.2 x 55cmPrice on Request
hang something metric
Dozie Kanuhang something metric, 2022200 x 150 x 40cmPrice on Request
Headboard (a tribe sleep)
Dozie KanuHeadboard (a tribe sleep), 202290 x 151 x 8cmPrice on Request
Student Loan Debt Relief 2
Dozie KanuStudent Loan Debt Relief 2, 201944.5 x 27.9 x 27.9cmPrice on Request
Shack
Dozie KanuShack, 202262.5 x 50 x 3cmPrice on Request
Gallery Representation