Chino Amobi

Born 1984 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Lives and works in Richmond, Virginia.

Education

2019 VCU MFA Graphic Design

2010 VCU BFA Painting Printmaking

2006 John Tyler Community College Certificate

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022 Age of Excess, Meredith Rosen, New York
Sextant, Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris

2021 EROICA, Liste Art Fair, Basel

2020 Luma Westbau, Schwarzescafé, (cur. by Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen in collaboration with House of Mixed Emotions)

2017 Endeavor Gallery, Richmond

Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Coming Soon, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris

2023 Holy Village II, Derosia, New-York
There should have been roses, HFKD, Holsterbo

2022 Elephant’s Leg, Tonus, Paris
Corp, Residence Gallery, London
Scouring, Meredith Rosen Gallery, New York
Focus Group 3, Von Ammon Co, Washington

2021 Still Time, Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris
Giving Up the Ghost, Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles
Phantasia Bouquet, Sandy Brown, Berlin
Lust For Life, Part I & II, Edward Ressle, Shanghai

2020 Four Horsemen & the Apocalypse, Shockoe Art Space, Richmond

2019 Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles

2017 SCREEN: A Full Spectrum, MOCA Los Angeles

2013 Performance as Diamond Black Hearted Boy

2017 Direct 2 Video Byrd Theatre Screening, Richmond

Performances
2022 MoMA PS1, NYC
Parkingston, Gaité Lyrique, Paris

2021 KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (curated by The Performance Agency)
Chino Amobi, organized by Kévin Blinderman, Treize

2019 Institute of Contemporary Art, Richmond

2017 Pop Rally, MOMA New York
New Museum, New York
ICA London
Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
Tufts University, Boston

2016 Wesleyan University, Connecticut
MOCADA Museum of Contemporary Art of The African Diaspora, New York

2014 University of Gothenburg, Sweden

RESIDENCIES & GRANTS

2021-2022 ArtExplora residency, Paris

Curation

Co-founder of International Record Label and Art Collective
Non Worldwide
Director of Eroica

Bibliography
2024 Mark Jenkins,In the galleries: An immersive dive into the pandemic experience, The Washington Post, 2024

2022 Ingrid Luquet-Gad On the rise : Chino Amobi - L’artiste poursuit son voyage cosmique à Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Basel
Alexandra Gilliams, Review: Chino Amobi/ Sextant, XIBT

2022 Noor Brara Paris, Europe’s Former Art Capital, Is Back on Top, The New York Times Magazine

2020 Jan Vorisek, Interview, Luma Foundation

2017 Varaidzo, Review: Exorcise the language of domination: how NON Worldwide gives voice to the black diaspora, The Guardian
Matthew Trammell Review: Chino Amobi’s Rerouted Ambient Music, New Yorker
Chal Ravens Paradiso : Album Review, Pitchfork

2016 Music : Best Of 2016, ArtForum
Kevin Lozano, An Introduction to NON Worldwide, Red Bull Music Academy
John Chiaverina Review: Its Own Sovereign State, ArtNews