Presentation

Gozié Ojini (b. 1995, Los Angeles, CA) is a sculptor and installation artist based in New Haven, CT. His practice interrogates the emotional and cultural weight embedded in everyday objects—particularly musical instruments and domestic furnishings—through acts of deconstruction, reconstruction, and reinterpretation. Influenced by the language of sampling in hip-hop and the symbolic afterlife of functional objects, Ojini’s work explores themes of memory, obsolescence, and the labor of care.

Working with salvaged materials such as discarded pianos, Ojini transforms instruments of performance into silent, bodily sculptures—muted vessels that speak to inheritance, silence, and the invisible weight of value systems. His gesture-based process resists conventional hierarchies of craft, embracing imperfection and embodied intuition. Drawing on personal memory and cultural history, his objects evoke a poetics of absence and endurance.

Ojini holds a BA from the University of California, Los Angeles (2019) and an MFA from the Yale University School of Art (2025). His debut solo exhibition, Passages, was presented at Silke Lindner, New York, in 2024.

Passage Exhibition