Artist, Deconstructed Anthems: Massachusetts

Ekene Ijeoma is an artist, designer, researcher, and educator who lives and works between his studio in Brooklyn, NY, and his lab, Poetic Justice Group, at MIT in Cambridge, MA.

His work has been commissioned by MIT Museum (2022), Exploratorium (2021), Van Alen Institute (2021), The Kennedy Center (2019, 2017), Museum of the City of New York (2019, 2018), Day for Night Festival (2017), Panorama Festival (2017), Pratt Manhattan Gallery (2017), Google (2016), The Storefront for Art and Architecture (2015). His work has also been presented by the Onassis Foundation (2022), the Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis (2021), the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (2021), the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (2020), the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston (2020), Annenberg Space for Photography (2016), Neuberger Museum of Art (2016), and Museum of Modern Art (2015).

His works have featured musicians including (in order of appearance): Kris Bowers, Ambrose Akinmusire, Burniss Earl Travis, Kalia Vandever, Melanie Charles, Joel Ross, Baba Don Babatunde, Neil Clarke, Lakecia Benjamin, Mr. Fitz, and Keyon Harrold.

His practice has been supported by New York Foundation for the Arts (2022, 2016), New York State Council on the Arts (2021), Creative Capital (2019), Map Fund (2019), Wave Farm (2018), and The Kennedy Center (2017).

He studied Information Technology (BS) at Rochester Institute of Technology (2006) and Interaction Design (MS) at Domus Academy (2008) in Milan, Italy. In 2019 he was appointed as an Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Science at MIT and founded the Poetic Justice Group at MIT Media Lab.

Learn more about Ekene Ijeoma at studioijeoma.com.