Mendi + Keith Obadike

As guest curator for this Tuesday Evenings with the Modern program, lauren woods, an artist who participated in Tuesday Evenings in November 2015 and again as part of “Reading Monuments,” a series of panels in October 2018 and March 2019, has invited Mendi + Keith Obadike to present “Recent Work.” 

Mendi + Keith Obadike make music, art, and literature. They have exhibited and performed at the New Museum, New York; Whitechapel Gallery, London; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Their early collaborations were works made for the internet and recorded music. Their current projects include a series of large-scale, public sound artworks. Their honors include a Rockefeller New Media Arts Fellowship, Pick Laudati Award for Digital Art, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award.

A video recording of this lecture will be available on the Modern's Youtube.