Art Basel Hong Kong

Kayode Ojo’s practice emerges from a filtering of the clothing, furniture, musical instruments, cameras, faux-luxury objects, and popular media that are encountered in everyday life. His sculptures are precariously balanced arrangements of such found objects atop glass and mirrors or in readymade cages, often titled after film and theater references, performing a delicate double-duty as both consumer good and artwork. Ojo’s photographs are drawn from a decades-long archive of candid, spontaneous captures, documenting moments of performativity late at night.

Ojo (*1990, United States) lives and works in New York. He has presented three solo exhibitions at Sweetwater, most recently in 2024. Other recent solo exhibitions have taken place at Maureen Paley and 52 Walker. His work is featured in the permanent collections of the Hessel Museum of Art, Museum Brandhorst, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Stedelijk Museum, and the Studio Museum. Ojo received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 2012.