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Awol Erizku (born 1988) is an Ethiopian-born American contemporary artist. His primary media are painting , photography , sculpture and film. Erizku works with a wide variety of found materials.
Awol Erizku is an Ethiopian-born American artist known for his staged portraits of African Americans and appropriation-based practice. View Awol Erizku’s 63 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
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Mar 8, 2022 · LOS ANGELES — True, Awol Erizku may be best known for his beatific photograph of a pregnant Beyoncé, which in 2017 was the most liked post in Instagram’s history.
Jun 7, 2023 · The Afro-Esotericism of Awol Erizku. The prolific artist knows that contemporary Blackness, made and unmade on the stage of capitalism, is as much defined by its spiritual reckonings as it is...
Awol Erizku. Memories of a Lost Sphinx. March 10–April 16, 2022. Park & 75, New York. From the Quarterly. Awol Erizku and Urs Fischer: To Make That Next Move.
Nov 4, 2021 · Awol Erizku’s Surreal Visions of Africa and Its Diaspora. Engaging traditions of Dadaism and Surrealism, the photographer visualizes contemporary Black creative life. In Awol Erizku’s Jaheem (2020), an African mask is engulfed by fire, an orange-white burn so totalizing that the lapping flames light the steel-mesh fence against which the ...
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Feb 1, 2023 · For his latest exhibition, Awol Erizku has transformed the white cube at Ben Brown Fine Arts into a Black space. Even if you think the artist’s decision to literally paint the walls black is a ...
