I AM
Imo Imeh
Studio artist and scholar of African Diaspora art
Imeh Exhibits New Collection at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington DC
Imeh’s solo exhibition Monuments to Our Skies features two new series that consider Black identity within the boundless frameworks of science, faith, and divinity. One is a portrait series titled Bioformations that addresses the intersections of Black identity and the science of Biological Psychiatry; the other is a reimagining of the mythological story of Icarus, where the protagonist possesses dueling identities around the issues of culture, citizenship, nationhood, and spiritual transcendence.
Imeh’s Solo Exhibition The Hope of Radiance reveals the Divinity of Black Men
The Hope of Radiance, exhibited in the Claude Worthy Benedum Gallery at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, brings together art works and texts created between 2020 – 2022 that are part of Imeh’s project titled Benediction. It guides us down a road of reflection about Black boys and men, faith and despair, solitude, loss, and the realities of the human condition. The question at the center of this project considers the cyclicality of Black trauma and triumph, and the hope for acknowledgement, beauty, resplendence, and so much more.
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My goal as an artist is to simplify the larger problematic structures of inequality in society, in an effort to inspire new ways of framing history, offer a new and humanizing lens through which we can collectively understand and mourn the victims of an unjust society, and provide opportunities for discussion and reconciliation.