- Cooper Union
- Yale University
Awol Erizku works across photography, sculpture and installation, combining art-historical references with Black popular culture, music and symbols of diasporic identity. His work often repositions Black subjects inside canonical visual structures.
Photography; sculpture; installation
Artist Films
Imagining Black Diasporas - Awol Erizku
Major Works
- 2009Girl with a Bamboo Earring
- 2012Ask the Dust
- 2014The Only Way Is Up
- 2015New Flower | Images of the Reclining Venus
- 2017Beyoncé Pregnancy Portrait
- 2010sMystic Parallax
- 2010sBlack and Gold Series
- 2010sBad II
- 2010sNo Hesi
- 2020sCosmic Drill
Interviews & Writing
- Museum-quality video search →RESEARCH QUEUEvideo
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