Okanemi
What we carry, 2026
To those who survive and remain alive, may we become our ancestors’ wildest dreams.
Justen Okanemi
b. 1992 —
From Dayton, Ohio but based in Los Angeles, the journey from beginning to present as an artist has been nothing other than a blessing and possibility bestowed from God himself.
I believe that art is an experience and mirror of life, where one doesn’t exist without the other. From language, visual arts, biology, supreme mathematics, music and so forth. There’s a rhythm in everything, and the pulse of that rhythm is the artistic expression that is life.
Studio okanemi, est 2026
Here, stillness became practice.
And practice became devotion.
A sanctuary for becoming.
Where silence shapes spirit
and the soul remembers itself.
Joy of a black boy, 2026
Even when the world casts darkness around us, there’s still light and joy in the little black boy.
Ancestral Adage, 2026
We Were Never Just One, 2026