Visiting Artist: Joseph Obanubi

Joseph Obanubi, a creative artist living and working between New York and Philadelphia, is delivering a talk on the RIT campus from 1-2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2, in the SHED, room 1300. 

About the artist

Obanubi's practice spans across visual art/design, art direction, and art education. Obanubi's making process involves digital, tactile and (multi) sensory experimentation. Their creative practice is interested in questioning, engaging, and reconstructing understandings of identity, time, place and translation through digital, tactile, and multi-sensory experimentation. They describe their art making practice as a visual bricolage, a (re)construction of fragments found in everyday experiences, taken from their original context into another.

Obanubi has exhibited at the Research Centre for Society, Technology and Ecology in Africa, Bayreuth, Germany (2025), Krannert Art Museum, Illinois, USA (2025), Museum of Photography Lianzhou, China (2024), Hi-Flow Geneva, Switzerland (2022), Grand Palais Ephemere, Paris, France (2022), Rieterpark, Museum Rietberg, Germany(2022), African Artist Foundation, Lagos, Nigeria (2021), Musee Mohammed VI d’ art Moderne et contemporain, Rabat Morocco (2021), Magnin-a Gallery, Paris, France (2020), Sharjah Art Foundation, 2020, Darmstädter Tage d. Fotografie Festival, Darmstadt, Germany, (2020), Carreau du Temple, Paris, France (2019) and Somerset House, London, United Kingdom (2019).