Muzae Sesay
Overview
The Moon Has Reached the Same Point As The Sun Above The Ocean, 2024
Muzae Sesay is a visual artist whose practice focuses on understanding our collective relationship to space, memory, community, and the perceived truths within them. Utilising skewed perspectives of space and shape collapsed into two-dimensional planes of color, Sesay creates surreal geometric interiors, exteriors, landscapes, and structures, presenting a situation in which to be experienced and explored. Inspired by ideas of cultural reflection and developed by questioning the validity of remembrance, his work often depicts worlds created in response to a social introspection and/or an attempt to perceive a shared reality. This process involves taking imagery from the physical world and reducing it to rudimental forms that then populate fragmented universes compiled by perspectival fallacies and tied together by harmonious color composition. The viewer is compelled to understand the space, question its dimensionality, dive inside and walk around.
His work aims to provoke social reasoning and induce the viewer’s agency in the navigation and narration of imagery. Recent work connects with the feelings that arise from testing the absoluteness of the strict and rigid aspects of physics and pragmatism found in architecture, design, and our built environment.
Sesay has exhibited in group exhibitions at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Museum of Sonoma County, San Jose Institute for Contemporary Arts, United Talent Agency Los Angeles, and the California Governor’s Mansion. His work is in the public collections of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, de Young Museum, San Francisco Arts Commission, and Stanford Healthcare.
Recent exhibitions include: Recent exhibitions include: Arcadia and Elsewhere, James Cohan Gallery, New York NY, USA (group - 2024); The Breeze and I, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA (solo - 2023); Alicia McCarthy/Muzae Sesay, Pt.2 Gallery, Oakland CA, USA (group - 2023); The Holographic Principle, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA (group - 2023); Creativity in the Golden State, Governor's Mansion, Sacramento (group - 2023); Walk Against The Wind, Parker Gallery/Micki Meng, New York NY, USA (group - 2023); When We Were Here Last, Pt.2 Gallery, Oakland CA, USA (solo - 2023); Laguna Peralta, Eighteen Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (solo - 2022); Multi-Purpose Room, Pt.2 Gallery, Oakland CA, USA (solo - 2022); Winter Group Show, Pt.2 Gallery, Oakland CA, USA (group - 2022); V1XX, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (group - 2022); Collective Arising, Museum of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa CA, USA (group - 2022); Drawing With Scissors, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco CA, USA (group - 2022); Rites of Passage, Unit Gallery, London, UK (group - 2021); Californisme: Partie 2, Bim Bam Gallery, Paris, France (group - 2021); Path of the Storm, SUNNY NY Gallery, New York NY, USA (group - 2021); Peacemaker, Public Gallery, London, UK (solo - 2021); Mass Vax, The Cabin, Los Angeles CA, USA (solo - 2021); Cut Trees, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA, USA (solo - 2020); Freetown Veranda / The Purest Air I've Ever Known, Pt.2 Gallery, Oakland CA, USA (solo - 2020); Celebrating Contemporary Black Artists, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery, San Francisco CA, USA (group - 2019)
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