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Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Ivan Grianti

Dozie Kanu

Born in 1993, Houston, United States

Lives and works in New York City, United States, Santarém, Brazil

Overview

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 Inf...Read more

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Dozie Kanu
hang something metric, 2022
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Dozie Kanu
memories let me be (adornment slaughtered), 2023
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Dozie Kanu
fire thumbnail gleam barely aware, 2023
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hollow tips exhausted forcing light, 2023
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Bhad (Their Newborn’s Crib), 2019
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teepee home (Pro Impact), 2016
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Prediction, 2019
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Student Loan Debt Relief 2, 2019
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Dozie Kanu
Proper Distraction (Mirror), 2019
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Dozie Kanu
Headboard Trial, 2021
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merrill-y, 2020
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0’s and 1’s, 2020
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Emo State, 2020
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Chair [ v ] (Electric Chair), 2018
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Bench on 84s, 2017
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Dozie Kanu
Chair [ xiii ] (Stand Up) (Ja Rule), 2019
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At The Moment, 2021
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Headboard (Abject Twin), 2021
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negative (Blood Type), 2021
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AB (Blood Type), 2021
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hemorrhaged and made deaf, 2020
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Shrine On (Use a Pillow), 2019
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Healthy Minds Must Grow, Watch From The Bleachers, 2020
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Dozie Kanu
Chair [iii] Commission, 2018
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