precious okoyomon

interview

by BOBBI SALVÖR MENUEZ

portrait by ANGALIS FIELD

 

Rising star of the New York art scene, the young Nigerian-American artist is redefining art for a generation that refuses to separate childhood from ecological collapse. Their work celebrates this vulnerable moment as the ground of a politics of life — if only we could learn to protect children, and to listen to their voices.

 

BOBBI SALVÖR MENUEZ — I’m excited to be here in your beautiful house, with all your tiny bear friends. You were born in London, lived in Nigeria, then in Houston and Ohio before I met you in New York. Where do you see the seeds from your childhood in your art practice today?

PRECIOUS OKOYOMON — I feel like childhood is the beginning of everything and is always the original seed of how everything grows. I had so much endless displacement and…