Precious Okoyomon

Precious Okoyomon (born 1993, London, United Kingdom) is a Nigerian-American artist and poet whose multidisciplinary practice explores ecology, colonial histories, migration, and the entanglements between human and nonhuman life. Working across installation, sculpture, poetry, and performance, Okoyomon creates immersive environments that incorporate living materials such as plants, soil, insects, and organic matter, foregrounding processes of growth, decay, and transformation. Their work often centers invasive plant species—such as kudzu—as metaphors for colonial expansion, displacement, and resilience, examining how landscapes are shaped by histories of violence and survival. By cultivating these materials within gallery spaces, Okoyomon constructs ecosystems that challenge distinctions between nature and culture, control and wildness. Their installations frequently evolve over time, allowing unpredictability and ecological processes to shape the work’s form and meaning. Alongside their visual practice, Okoyomon is an acclaimed poet, and language plays a central role in their work. Their texts and installations engage themes of love, grief, spirituality, and belonging, often drawing from diasporic experience and queer identity. By combining literary, ecological, and sculptural approaches, Okoyomon expands contemporary art discourse to include care, relationality, and interdependence across species. Okoyomon has exhibited widely at major international institutions and biennials and was included in the 59th Venice Biennale. Their work is held in significant public and private collections. They live and work in New York.