SELECTED WRITINGS & PROJECTS
Curatorial Projects
Traces of Ecstasy, Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, February 16 - July 14, 2024
Traces of Ecstasy, Lagos Biennial Fourth Edition, Lagos, February 3-10, 2024
Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management, Artists Space and e-flux Screening Room, New York, May 17-28, 2023
Living with Ghosts, Pace Gallery, London, July 8-August 5, 2022
Living with Ghosts, Wallach Art Gallery, New York, March 26-April 10, 2022
Forgotten Histories: Architecture & Memory in Postcolonial Nigeria, Angels and Muse, Lagos, December 22, 2019
Edited Publications
Living with Ghosts: A Reader, Pace Publishing, 2022 (view introduction here)
Essays, Reviews, & Interviews
“Anarcho-Ecstasy: Options for an Afri-Queer Becoming,” e-flux Journal, October 2023
“A Question of Inheritance: Bouchra Khalili’s Decolonial Spectropoetics,” Bouchra Khalili: Between Circles and Constellations (Exhibition Catalogue), MACBA, September 2023
“Danced Insurgencies: Onyeka Igwe,” Mousse, June 2023
“Eric N. Mack: Notes on Sarong,” Chronorama Redux (Exhibition Catalogue), Palazzo Grassi, June 2023
“Ciné-chronotones: Decolonial Temporal Critique in Contemporary Moving Image Practice,” Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management (Exhibition Catalogue), Whitney Museum of American Art, May 2023
“Photography Report: Imaging Racial Capital,” e-flux Criticism, April 2023
“Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Painterly Matterings of Ordinary Black Life,” Tate Etc., January 2023
“Cinematising the Ghostly Postcolonial Timescape: John Akomfrah & Black Audio Film Collective,” Living with Ghosts: A Reader, 2022
“Bouchra Khalili and KJ Abudu in Conversation,” Living with Ghosts: A Reader, 2022
“Living with Ghosts: Curatorial Essay,” Pace Journal, 2022
“Evan Ifekoya in Conversation with KJ Abudu,” Resonant Frequencies (Exhibition Catalogue), Migros Museum, March 2022
“The Inexpressively Expressive Cinematic Image: Quiet and the Black Interior in A Screaming Man and Bless Their Little Hearts,” Seen Journal, November 2021
“Interview: Artist Ângela Ferreira Examines Modern Architecture and Colonialism,” PIN-UP, August 2021
“KJ Abudu In Conversation With Shola Von Reinhold,” Luncheon Magazine No. 11, June 2021
“We Greet Aṣọ Before We Greet Its Wearer: Five Theses on Lagos Space Programme,” Boy.Brother.Friend, Spring 2021
“Steve McQueen at the Tate Modern: Cinematics of Touch, Flesh, and Embodiment,” Arts.Black, July 6, 2020
“Study #19, Rich and Poor, Jim Goldberg,” The Roberts Institute of Art Study Series, April 30, 2020
“Eric N. Mack: Materialising Aesthetic Ruptures,” Unbound (Exhibition Catalogue), Zuckerman Museum of Art, March 2020
“Building A Future From The Rubble: The Second Lagos Biennial,” Frieze, November 26, 2019
“Artist Maren Hassinger Mourns Our Lost Connection With The Natural World,” Frieze, October 29, 2019
Lectures, Tours & Conversations
“Living with Ghosts & Traces of Ecstasy: Decolonial Spectropoetics in Contemporary Art and Curatorial Practice,” Atmospheres of Alienation, Freie Universität Berlin, November 8, 2023
“Discussion with TJ Demos & KJ Abudu: Ecologies of Collapse, Chronopolitics, and Justice-to-Come,” Woodbine, New York, May 14, 2023
“Discussion with KJ Abudu, Nacira Guénif-Souilamas, and Léopold Lambert,” Petrine, Paris, February 17, 2023
“KJ Abudu on Ibrahim El Salahi: Pain Relief Drawings,” The Drawing Center, New York, January 15, 2023
“Shrine,” Participant Inc., New York, July 19, 2020