Working primarily in sculpture and installation, Gozié Ojini’s practice employs careful gestures with found objects to explore the social significance and emotional resonance held within their history and materiality. Frequently manipulating and restructuring musical instruments and domestic objects, he echoes the language of sampling in hip-hop music production, translating the sonic into the physical. Through silenced objects coded with synesthesia, Ojini’s practice follows a poetic logic that meditates on inheritance, memory, non-performance and shifting systems of value.
Gozié Ojini (born 1995 in Los Angeles, CA) lives and works in New Haven, CT, where he is currently enrolled in Yale University’s Sculpture Program (MFA 2025). He holds a BA from the School of Art and Architecture at UCLA (2019) and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Madison, ME (2022). He will be included in the group exhibition Alice Coltrane: Monument Eternal at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, in February 2025. He has had a solo exhibition at Silke Lindner, New York, NY (2024) and In Lieu, Los Angeles, CA (2022). He has been included in various group exhibitions, among them Old Sun, New Sun at Et Al, San Francisco, CA (2023) and Nomad at the Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA (2021), among others.