Preface and text by Kambui Olujimi. Text by Hanif Abdurraqib. Interview by Koyo Kouoh. Conversations with Yasi Alipour, Naomi Beckwith, Nayland Blake, Louis Chude-Sokei, Amaryllis R. Flowers, Sandra Jackson-Dumont, Arthur Jafa, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, J Wortham.
Olujimi's recent transcendent watercolor and ink paintings, sculpture, murals and film works imagine the liberatory possibilities of boundlessness
Born and raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, conceptual artist Kambui Olujimi (born 1976) works across installation, sculpture, painting, video and film to explore the liberatory possibilities of boundlessness. Through an exploration of weightlessness, Olujimi contests the fixed and singular ideas of Blackness as ascribed within persisting colonial imaginations. North Star brings together over five years of Olujimi's artwork, including large-scale watercolor paintings, video installation, ceramic sculpture, a short film and excerpts from a two-day symposium commissioned by Lincoln Center for Performing Arts. Presented in this full color monograph, these works collectively imagine what new relationships we might chart between our bodies, the self and the universe, once deeply entrenched forces are replaced by boundlessness and possibility. This book was made possible through the generous support of the Mellon Foundation.
"Ghost Ledger" (2024) is from 'Kambui Olujimi: North Star.'
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“The most radical thing you can do as a Black person in America is to be happy.” So begins the preface to Kambui Olujimi: North Star, releasing this week from Gregory R. Miller & Co. as a component of the rising Bed Stuy-born artist’s recent installation at San José Museum of Art and related symposium at Lincoln Center. Both a proper exhibition catalog and a deep investigation of the concept of Black boundlessness that has fascinated Olujimi since childhood, this 160-page hardcover includes 100 color reproductions alongside writings by Olujimi and Hanif Abdurraqib, an interview with the renowned late South African curator Koyo Kouoh and edited transcripts of Olujimi’s Conversations on Boundlessness symposium featuring Yasi Alipour, Naomi Beckwith, Nayland Blake, Louis Chude-Sokei, Amaryllis R. Flowers, Sandra Jackson-Dumont, Arthur Jafa, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein and J Wortham. “Your proposal is one of the most compelling, beautiful, poetic acts of displacement,” Kouoh asserts in their interview. “I love it because it breaks the assumptive logic around Blackness. It proposes powerful imaginative practices around worlding, and world-making. Your work is foundationally engaged in the tension between matter and non-matter.” Featured image is “Folding Mirrors” (2022). continue to blog
FORMAT: Hbk, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 160 pgs / 100 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $55.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $78 GBP £44.00 ISBN: 9781941366837 PUBLISHER: Gregory R. Miller & Co. AVAILABLE: 8/5/2025 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: In stock TERRITORY: WORLD
Published by Gregory R. Miller & Co.. Preface and text by Kambui Olujimi. Text by Hanif Abdurraqib. Interview by Koyo Kouoh. Conversations with Yasi Alipour, Naomi Beckwith, Nayland Blake, Louis Chude-Sokei, Amaryllis R. Flowers, Sandra Jackson-Dumont, Arthur Jafa, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, J Wortham.
Olujimi's recent transcendent watercolor and ink paintings, sculpture, murals and film works imagine the liberatory possibilities of boundlessness
Born and raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, conceptual artist Kambui Olujimi (born 1976) works across installation, sculpture, painting, video and film to explore the liberatory possibilities of boundlessness. Through an exploration of weightlessness, Olujimi contests the fixed and singular ideas of Blackness as ascribed within persisting colonial imaginations. North Star brings together over five years of Olujimi's artwork, including large-scale watercolor paintings, video installation, ceramic sculpture, a short film and excerpts from a two-day symposium commissioned by Lincoln Center for Performing Arts. Presented in this full color monograph, these works collectively imagine what new relationships we might chart between our bodies, the self and the universe, once deeply entrenched forces are replaced by boundlessness and possibility. This book was made possible through the generous support of the Mellon Foundation.
