OVERVIEW

Esmaa Mohamoud（b. 1992 , London, UK）is based in New York. Mohamoud holds a BFA from Western University and an MFA from OCAD University. As an African Canadian artist, the artist investigates Black body politics through her multidisciplinary practices. Mohamoud aesthetically depicts the paradoxes of Blackness, its hypervisibility and invisibility, concerning herself with the ways in which racialized bodies navigate spaces as figures where complex gender and racial dynamics are confronted, performed and reimagined. The powerful imagery by its works suggests deeper forces at play in games like basketball and football, exploring how race and sports（institutions that commoditize and dehumanize Black life）also function together as a means of social mobility and protest. Recent exhibitions include To Play In The Face of Certain Defeat, Art Gallery of Hamilton – travelling through 2023, organizing by Museum London; To the Hoop: Basketball and Contemporary Art, Weatherspoon Art Museum, North Carolina; and Human Capital, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Canada.Other participated exhibitions were held at Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts Montreal.

HISTORY

2024
‘Complex Dreams’, MSU Broad Art Museum, Michigan, USA
2023
‘Let Them Consume Me In The Light’, Kavi Gupta | Elizabeth St., Chikago, USA
2022
‘To Play In The Face of Certain Defeat’, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
‘It Cannot Always Be Night’, Arsenal Contemporary, New York, USA
2021
‘Double Dribble’, The Bentway Signature Public Art Commission Toronto, Canada
2019
‘To Play in the Face of Certain Defeat’, travelling from Museum London, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ottawa Art Gallery, Winnipeg ArtGallery, Art Gallery of Alberta London, UK , Hamilton・Ottawa・Winnipeg・Alberta, Canada
2018
‘ELEMENT’, Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto, Canada
‘The Draft’, Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
‘Three-Peat’, ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, USA
2016
‘#000000 VIOLENCE’, YYZ Artists’ Outletm, Toronto, Canada

2023
‘Disembodied’, Nicodim Gallery, New York, USA
‘Resistance Training’, MSU Broad Art Museum, Michigan, USA
2022
‘Crossing’, KOTARO NUKAGA, Tokyo, Japan
‘In These Truths’, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York, USA
‘Garmenting: Costume as Contemporary Art’, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA
2019
‘Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art’, travelling from The Royal Ontario Museum, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Toronto・Halifax・Montreal, Canada
‘Self, Made’, Exploratorium, San francisco, USA
2018
‘My Silences Had Not Protected Me, part of “For Freedoms: 50 State Project’, Fort Gansevoort, New York, USA
2017
‘Every.Now.Then: Reframing Nationhood’, Art Gallery of Ontarioy, Toronto, Canada
2016
‘Solace’, The Gladstone Gallery, Toronto, Canada

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Weatherspoon Museum, North Carolina, USA
Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan, Michigan, USA
Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada Museum London, London, UK
University of Victoria Legacy Art Galleries, Victoria, Canada

WORKS

NEWS

KOTARO NUKAGA to participate in 'ART FAIR TOKYO'

KOTARO NUKAGA is pleased to announce our participation in Japan’s largest art fair “ART FAIR TOKYO”, to be held at the Tokyo International Forum from March 7 to 9 with a lineup of 9 international artists including Gentaro Ishizuka, Nanami Inoue, Kazuhito Kawai, Tomona Matsukawa, Keita Morimoto, New York based artist Esmaa Mohamoud, Nir Hod,

KOTARO NUKAGA to participate in 'THE ARMORY SHOW 2024'

KOTARO NUKAGA is pleased to announce our participation at THE ARMORY SHOW 2024, an international art fair held in Jacob Javits Convention Center, New York, from September 6 to September 8. For our first show in this art fair, KOTARO NUKAGA will present works by international artists: Keita Morimoto, Tomona Matsukawa, Nanami Inoue, Kazuhito Kawai,

Group exhibition curated by artist Keita Morimoto 'Crossing'

From November 26 (Sat) to January 28 (Sat), KOTARO NUKAGA, Roppongi is pleased to present ‘Crossing,’ a group show curated by the artist Keita Morimoto. The exhibition will showcase the work of nine emerging talents who are currently garnering international attention. Morimoto, who studied art in Canada and recently returned to pursue an artistic career