Julianknxx

b. 1987

Born in Sierra Leone, artist Julianknxx moved to London at the age of nine. He combines his expansive poetry and artistic practice into video and performance-based works, primarily rooted within ‘West African traditions of oral history’.

Recent shows include ‘Chorus in Rememory of Flight’, Barbican, London (2023); ‘In A Dream We Are at Once Beautiful’, Foley Gallery, New York (2022); ‘Air’, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City (2022); ‘The London Open’, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2021); ‘In Praise of Still Boys’, 180 The Strand, London (2021); ‘The View From There’, Sadie Coles HQ, London (2021), ‘Bold Black British’, Christie’s, London (2021).

Julianknxx received the Jerwood Arts Apple and Snakes: Poetry in Performance Award in 2020.

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