Azikiwe Mohammed

Azikiwe Mohammed graduated from Bard College in 2005 where he studied photography and fine arts. Since then he has shown these things in galleries both nationally and internationally. In 2015 he received the Art Matters Grant, and in 2016 was the recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant. He is part of the collections at the Studio Museum in Harlem and the MoMA. He lives in New York and has his studio at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City.
Mohammed’s work often engages New Davonhaime — a conceptual town conceived by Mohammed that is an amalgamation of the names of the five most densely populated Black cities in America: New Orleans, Detroit, Jackson, Birmingham and Savannah. Jimmy’s Thrift of New Davonhaime was created to serve as a safe community, one of reimagined space and belonging, for Black and Brown people living in America. Previous versions of Jimmy’s Thrift of New Davonhaime have shown at SPRING/BREAK Art Show, No Longer Empty, Knockdown Center, MoMa PS1, and Mana Contemporary Miami.