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Muzae Sesay | |
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 Sesay in Oakland, CA |
Muzae Sesay is a painter known for fine art painting and large-scale murals.
Biography
[edit]Sesay is a painter born in 1989 in Long Beach, California, who lives and works in Oakland, CA. He moved to the Bay Area in 2011 and graduated from San Francisco State University.
Work
[edit]Using acrylic, vinyl paint, oil bars, and oil pastel, Sesay's work often focuses on space and liberation. He has described his practice as an interest in "color, composition, and what that freedom to imagine looks like."[1]
Career
[edit]His work is part of the public collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,[2] the de Young Museum,[3] and the Museum of the African Diaspora.[4] His first solo exhibition outside of the United States was in London at Public Gallery in 2021.[5]His paintings are often political, addressing topics like immigration and surveillance.[6] His public commissions include a massive mural in downtown Oakland, basketball courts,[7] and a roughly mile-long sculpture on Treasure Island.[8] He has exhibited at galleries such as Tiwani Contemporary in London, V1 Gallery in Copenhagen, Institute of Contemporary Art San José,[9] Berggruen Gallery and Fort Mason in San Francisco,[10] and Hannah Traore Gallery in New York.[11] He has also curated group shows at Pt. 2 Gallery in Oakland.[12]
Sesay's painted basketball court in Oakland was referenced without credit in Space Jam: A New Legacy, but he later collected a settlement.[13]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Artist In Residence, Oakland, Muzae Sesay, Hulu". YouTube. March 21, 2019. Retrieved September 7, 2026.
- ↑ "Muzae Sesay". San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved September 7, 2026.
- ↑ "Charades". Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Retrieved September 7, 2026.
- ↑ "In the Artist's Studio, Muzae Sesay". MoAD. Retrieved September 7, 2026.
- ↑ "Muzae Sesay, Peacemaker". Public Gallery. Retrieved September 7, 2026.
- ↑ "The Colourful Canvases of Muzae Sesay Tackle the Personal and the Political". Elephant Art. July 26, 2021. Retrieved September 7, 2026.
- ↑ "Rainbow Recreation Center Oakland California". 2K Foundations. June 2019. Retrieved September 7, 2026.
- ↑ "Infrastructure Projects on Yerba Buena and Treasure Islands Take Shape". San Francisco County Transportation Authority. November 24, 2025. Retrieved September 7, 2026.
- ↑ "Personal Alchemy: Terri Friedman, Maria Paz, Muzae Sesay". Institute of Contemporary Art San José. Retrieved September 7, 2026.
- ↑ "Muzae Sesay and Alexcia Sundra at The Guardhouse". FOR-SITE. Retrieved September 7, 2026.
- ↑ "Muzae Sesay Bio". Part 2 Gallery. Retrieved September 7, 2026.
- ↑ Steinberg, S Anne (December 1, 2025). "Muzae Sesay, Domestic Demo, pt. 2 Gallery". Roborant Review. Retrieved September 7, 2026.
- ↑ Klein, Jessica (December 21, 2023). "An Oakland Made of Legos". Alta Online. Retrieved September 7, 2026.
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