EDUCATION

2020 - MFA in Painting/Printmaking, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut

2013 - BFA in Film/Animation/Video, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence, Rhode Island

SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

2026

FOCUS: Africanus Okokon, Frieze Los Angeles, (Ochi Gallery)

Translator's Note, Ochi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2024

Touch Products, von ammon co, Washington DC

2022

Unpossessed, Helena Anrather Gallery, New York, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES

2026

Magical Thinking, of Systems and Beliefs, Tufts University Art Galleries, Boston, MA (Group Exhibition)

2025

The Intimacies Between Continents, Contemporary Arts Center Gallery, University of California, Irvine, Claire Trevor School of the Arts (Three-Person Exhibition)

Veronica, Veronica, Hesse Flatow, Amagansett, NY (Group Exhibition)

Tomorrow is Already Behind Us, Lyles and King Gallery, New York, NY (Group Exhibition)

THIS IS NOT A RETREAT! NXTHVN Through the Years, Ford Foundation Gallery, New York, NY (Group Exhibition and Performance)

(It’s a) Whole Lotta Money (in this muf****er), Harlesden High Street & Kendra Jayne Patrick, Basel Social Club, Basel, Switzerland (Fair Booth)

2023

Magical Thinking Symposium, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (Performance)

Middle Gallery, Helena Anrather Gallery, New York, NY (Group Exhibition)

2022

Subtle Subversions, Microscope Gallery, New York, NY (Group Exhibition)

NXTHVN - Undercurrents, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY (Group Exhibition)

2020

Living in America: An Exhibition in Four Acts, International Print Center New York, New York, NY (Group Exhibition)

Yale University Painting and Printmaking MFA, Perrotin Gallery, New York, NY (Viewing Salon) (Group Exhibition)

Only When You Are Called: Yale Painting Thesis Show, Green Gallery, Yale School of Art (Group Exhibition)

2017

Other People Presents: Two Shows, The Kitchen, NY, NY (Performance)

Friction Fiction: Survey of Black Animation, Amadlozi Gallery, African Heritage Arts Center, Miami, FL,, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN (Group Exhibition)

2014

Cadence Exits, Proxy, Providence, RI (Group Exhibition)

2013

Hip-Hop Post-Mortem, Brooklyn Fire Proof, Brooklyn, NY (Performance)

SCREENINGS AND FESTIVALS

2025

Unclaimed Experience: a night of film and video, Harvard University Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA (Screening)

2023

YES: Miatta Kawinzi / Africanus Okokon (Showcase Screening and Q&A) Microscope Gallery, New York, NY

2022

Gleaners Film Festival (Installation) Lanchester, PA

2021

Chicago Underground Film Festival (In-Competition Screening) (Winner: The Decolonize This Award) Chicago, IL

Camden International Film Festival (Screening) Camden, ME

True/False Film Festival (In-Competition Screening) Columbia, MO

2020

Blackstar Film Festival (In-Competition Screening and Panel Discussion) Philadelphia, PA (Virtual)

2019

Archival Interventions (Screening and Panel Discussion) Whitney Humanities Center at Yale, Yale University, New Haven, CT

2019

Chale Wote Street Arts Festival: The LABS (Screening and Panel Discussion) Folkspace, National Theatre of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

An Evening of Film and Performance: MLK Day Weekend (Screening) Gloria’s Project Space, Ridgewood, NY

CAVE Festival - Not Found (Screening) Cellular Cinema, Minneapolis, MN

2016

Eyewash: Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation (Screening) Dartmouth College, Hanover, ME

2014

Fluxus Moon Cabaret (Screening) AS220 Black Box Theatre, Providence, RI

2013

New England Animation Film Festival (Screening) Institute of Contemporary Art/ Boston, Boston, MA

Eyeworks Experimental Animation Festival( Screening) Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY

2012

Ottawa International Animation Festival (In-Competition Screening and Panel Discussion) Ottawa, Canada

London International Animation Festival (Screening) London, UK

Australian International Animation Festival (Screening) Melbourne, Australia

Animator Festival (In-Competition Screening) Poznan, Poland

Holland Animation Film Festival (In-Competition Screening) Utrecht, Netherlands

2011

Ottawa International Animation Festival (In-Competition Screening and Panel Discussion) Ottawa, Canada

DISCOGRAPHY

2024

Offering, Other People (OP080)

Producer, Written By, Performer, Recorded By, Mixed By, Artwork

2015

Turkson Side, Other People (OP029)

Producer, Performer, Recorded By, Mixed By, Artwork

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

2025 - RISD Professional Development Fund, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

2021-2022 - NXTHVN Studio Fellowship, New Haven, CT

2020-2021 - Artspace New Haven Artist-in-Residence, New Haven, CT

2020 - New American Paintings Issue #152

2021 - Decolonize This Award, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL

2019 - Alice Kimball Traveling Fellowship Yale School University of Art

ARTIST PUBLICATIONS

Africanus Okokon + Maziyar Pahlevan (sound works + art works) (Other People, 2017)

PROFESSIONAL AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2021 - Present: Assistant Professor Film/Animation/Video, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)

2020 - 2021: Assistant Professor in Residence, Film/Animation/Video, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)

2019 – Teaching Assistant to Robert Storr: Painting Basics

2015 - 2018 Institute of Contemporary Art/ Boston, Boston, MA Interpretive Media and Adult Education Programs Coordinator, Education Department

TALKS AND LECTURES

2026

Visiting Artist Talk, Wesleyan University (Intermediate Time-Based Media)

2025

Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Yale University School of Art (Sculpture)

Visiting Artist Talk, Wesleyan University (Intermediate Time-Based Media)

2024

Visiting Artist Panel Discussion, Yale University School of Art (Painting)

2019

Visiting Critic: Rhode Island School of Design (Open Media, Film/ Animation/ Video)

Visiting Artist Talk: Rhode Island School of Design (Open Media, Film/ Animation/ Video)

2018

Visiting Guest Critic: Rhode Island School of Design (Animation, Film/ Animation/ Video)

Visiting Artist Talk: Rhode Island School of Design (Animation, Film/ Animation/ Video)

2014

Visiting Artist: Institute of Contemporary Art/ Boston Teen Arts Council

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2014 - 2016 Other People (Record Label) Art Director/ Artistic Producer/ Designer

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND PRESS

The Art Newspaper, “Expert Eye: Curator Cornelia Stokes’s Frieze LA Favourites,” by Cornelia Stokes, February 26, 2026. Web.

Frieze, “Work in Progress: Africanus Okokon,” by Africanus Okokon and Livia Russell, January 2026. Web.

Frieze, “Five Emerging Artists to Watch at Frieze Los Angeles 2026,” November 2025. Web.

DJ Mag, “Six Emerging Artists You Need to Hear: January 2025,” by Claire Francis, January 2025. Print.

Fifteen Questions, “Interview with Okokon: Everything Is a Ritual,” by Africanus Okokon and Tobias Fischer, December 2024. Web.

Electronic Sound, “Okokon – Offering” (album review), by Spenser Tomson, December 2024. Print.

Artforum, “Africanus Okokon,” by Ian Bourland, November 2024. Print.

NPR (Goats and Soda), “‘American African’ Identity Is Explored by U.S. Artist with Ghanaian/Nigerian Roots,” by Kahwit Tela, August 2024. Web.

The Washington Post, “Africanus Okokon’s Inventive Art Enshrines the Cast-Offs of Consumerism,” by Teri Henderson, August 2024. Print.

New American Paintings, “Northeast #152,” December 2021. Print.

Adams and Ollman, “Mariel Capanna and Africanus Okokon in Conversation,” February 2021. Web.

Yale Daily News, “Africanus Okokon to Create Sonic-Visual Experience at Artspace,” October 2021. Web.

Walker Art Center (Mn Artists), “Animating Life in the City,” by Sheila Regan, February 2015. Web.

The Wire- Adventures in Sound and Music, “Issue 384 Soundcheck: Okokon, Turkson Side” (album review), by Clive Bell, February 2016. Print.

PopMatters, “Okokon: Turkson Side” (album review), by Natasha Gatian, December 2015. Web.

The Quietus, “Okokon: Turkson Side” (album review), by Jeanette Leech, December 2015. Web.