David Alekhuogie

David Alekhuogie is an artist, an educator, and a photographer. His work considers the role of the archive, photographic language, and translation in the construction of race, gender identity, and power. He lives and works in Los Angeles and has had solo exhibitions at Assembly, in Houston; Chicago Artists Coalition; Commonwealth and Council, in Los Angeles; Company Gallery, in New York; the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery; Skibum MacArthur, in Los Angeles; and Yancey Richardson, in New York. His work has also been included in group exhibitions at Fraenkel Gallery, in San Francisco; the High Museum of Art, in Atlanta; the J. Paul Getty Museum, in Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Regen Projects, in Los Angeles.

At Radcliffe, Alekhuogie is engaging in predominately archival research related to the relationship between western economics, the history of black modernism, and the consequential abstraction of black and African culture historically through expressive performative storytelling strategies found in music, fashion, cooking, and dance.

Alekhuogie’s work is in the collections of the Everson Museum of Art; the Fitchburg Art Museum; the George Eastman Museum; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; the J. Paul Getty Museum; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Milwaukee Art Museum; the Minneapolis Institute of Art; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Alekhuogie, who received an MFA from Yale University and a BFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago, is a recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant.