Title: All-School Convocation with Keynote Speaker Precious Okoyomon
Date: Wednesday, September 25 at 1:30 PM
Location: Yale School of Architecture, Hastings Hall (Basement)
Additional Details: This event is open to School of Art community members only.
Precious Okoyomon (1993) is a Nigerian-American artist, poet, and chef. Currently based in Brooklyn, Okoyomon was born in London, England and spent much of their early childhood in Lagos, Nigeria. Their family moved to the United States in 2000. Okoyomon worked at the renowned restaurant Alinea for two years while attending the Great Books college Shimer in Chicago. With an intense interest in the nature world, their multidisciplinary artworks often take the form of immersive habitats. They have also published poetry, written a play, and cofounded Spiral Theory Test Kitchen, a collaborative queer cooking collective.
A Drop of Sun, Installation at LUMA Westbau, Zurich, 2019
Earthseed, Installation at the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfort, 2020
Collaboration with Hannah Black, I Need Help, Installation at Real Fine Arts, Brooklyn, 2018
Meet the artists | Precious Okoyomon
Biennale Arte 2022 - Precious Okoyomon
Art Talk II (Precious Okoyomon, Artist & Writer, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Serpentine Galleries)| DLD 19
Poem (Dissociation Season) by Precious Okoyomon
Frieze New York 2021 - Precious Okoyomon
L'Entretien Infini - Precious Okoyomon - Conversation avec Hans Ulrich Obrist – 2019
Exhibition Earthseed – MUSEUM MMK FÜR MODERNE KUNST
Questions, Culture + Change: A Conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist & Precious Okoyomon
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