Bronx Museum X Bienal de Cuenca: Adjani Okpu-Egbe Roundtable (Cont.)
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
4:00 – 5:30 PM (ET)
Free! Online Via Zoom*
Pre-Registration Required
*To attend this program on Zoom, please register here: https://bronxmuseum-org.
Pictured: Adjani Okpu Egbe; Fortitude; 2018-2024; 198 x 222 x 29cm; Quadriptych multimedia installation with 2 door panels, 2 shelves, and variable sizes of found and customized objects; Courtesy of the Artist.
The Bronx Museum and Bienal de Cuenca present Adjani Okpu-Egbe: Southern Biennials, Southern-Facing Museums, and Other Transitions Roundtable—building on a discussion (view the recording) hosted by the Museum and the Royal College of Art in London last year.
The upcoming program will be streamed live online via Zoom from the Universidad Nacional de Educación in Cuenca, Ecuador. A recording of the roundtable will also be available on this page and The Bronx Museum’s YouTube Channel by the end of October 2025.
Panel Participants
Co-Host: Shamim M. Momin
Director & Chief Curator
The Bronx Museum
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Co-Moderator: Eileen Jeng Lynch
Director of Curatorial Programs
The Bronx Museum
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Panelist: Keyna Eleison
Independent Curator
2025 Bienal de São Paulo
Former Artistic Director
Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro
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Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood
NYU Professor
MacArthur Fellow
Curator of 'Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration'
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Known for his “allegorical conglomerations”—post-expressionist, symbol-laden, figurative paintings with sculptural assemblages on his characteristic adjoining shelves—Okpu-Egbe combines autobiographical, historical, and political references. His symbolic language includes bubble wrap symbolizing strength in collectivity, books, lemons, flames, fish, birds, and fantastical hybrid creatures.
ABOUT THE ROUNDTABLE
This program will serve as a generative platform for contributors to collectively reflect on Okpu-Egbe’s practice from 2002 to the present and individually contextualize his work in their curatorial concerns—continuing to inform his forthcoming first monograph and expanding the transnational discourse around his work. This South-to-South, Bienal-to-Bienal-to-Museum conversation models global majority thinking about what art can be and do.
