Mikael Owunna
b.1990, American, Nigerian
Languages: English, French, Igbo, Mandarin Chinese
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Current President, Pittsburgh Public Art & Civic Design Commission
Current Executive Director, Rainbow Serpent,Inc.
Current Director, Mikael Owunna Studios, LLC.
Current Member, Three Rivers Business Alliance
BUSINESS CERTIFICATIONS
Current Minority Owned Business Enterprise (MBE)
Current LGBT Owned Business Enterprise (LGBTBE)
EDUCATION
2018 French Language (Advanced), Middlebury French School | Middlebury, VT, USA
2017 French Language (Intermediate), Middlebury French School | Middlebury, VT, USA
2012 Biomedical Engineering and History (B.S.E), Duke University | Durham, NC, USA
PUBLIC ART
2024 University City Science Center: Prayers Answered | Philadelphia, PA, USA | April 18 – June 21
2023 Orange Barrel Media: The Four World Ages and Anatomy of the Human | Atlanta, GA; Baltimore, MD; Boston, MA; Pittsburgh PA | August 1 – December 31
2023 Andy Warhol Museum POP District: Anatomy of the Human | Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2022 Orange Barrel Media: Anatomy of the Human | Curated by Marques Redd | Cleveland, OH; Columbus, OH; Denver, CO; Los Angeles, CA; Miami, FL; Tampa, FL
2021 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra: Playing the Cosmic Strings | Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2021 CAM Raleigh, The Nommo Twins| Raleigh, NC, USA
2021 Cleveland Foundation: Stardust: An Exploration of Black Futures | Curated by Amanda King | Cleveland, OH, USA
2021 Hazelwood Local: Illumin-Ave |Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2021 Orange Barrel Media: Infinite Essence: Celestial Liberation | Curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah | Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2021 Everyday Café: Infinite Essence | Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2021 Pittsburgh Glass Center: Infinite Essence | Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2021 Pittsburgh International Airport: Art in the Airport | Pittsburgh, PA, USA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Imagine Fresh Darkness, Blue Sky, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts | Portland, OR, USA | June 6 – 29, 2024
2024 Myth-Science of the Gatekeepers, Pittsburgh Glass Center | Pittsburgh, PA, USA | May 3 - July 31
2024 Limitless Africans, August Wilson African American Cultural Center | Pittsburgh, PA, USA | April 26 - July 7
2023 Infinite Essence, Middlebury College | Middlebury, VT, USA | August 7 - 11
2022 Reconstructing the Primordial House, North Carolina Museum of Art | Raleigh, NC, USA
2021 Reconstructing the Primordial House, Iris Project | Los Angeles, CA, USA
2021 Cosmologies, CAM Raleigh | Raleigh, NC, USA
2021 Cosmologies, ClampArt | NewYork City, NY, USA
2021 Infinite Essence, CAM Raleigh | Raleigh, NC, USA
2021 Infinite Essence, Silver Eye Center for Photography | Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2021 Infinite Essence, Prizer Arts and Letters | Austin, TX, USA
2019 Infinite Essence, C.A.P. Kobe Studio Y3| Kobe, Japan
2019 Limit(less), Davidson College | Davidson, NC, USA
2018 Limit(less), Wellesley College | Wellesley, MA,USA
2018 Limit(less), Middlebury College | Middlebury, VT,USA
2018 Infinite Essence, Centre Never Apart | Montréal, Canada
2017 Limit(less), Centre Never Apart | Montréal, Canada
2017 Limit(less), Rainbow House Brussels | Brussels, Belgium
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Futures Without Guns, University City Science Center | Philadelphia, PA, USA | April 18 – June 21
2024 Xippi, Heritage, and Metamorphosis: West African Art in the Modern Era, August Wilson African American Cultural Center | Pittsburgh, PA, USA | April 26 - July 7
2024 Y'all Don't Hear Me: The Black Appalachia An Ode to Nikki, Dogwood Arts and University of Tennessee Downtown Gallery | Knoxville, TN, USA | March 1 - April 6
2023 Of Dawn, Columbus State University Illges Gallery | Columbus, GA, USA | October 13 - November 11
2023 Love Languages, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | Houston, TX, USA | Aug 16 – September 27, 2025
2023 109th Annual AssociatedArtists of Pittsburgh Exhibition: Transcendental Arrangements, MillerInstitute for Contemporary Art – Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2023 Afro-Futurism: A History of Black Futures, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture |Washington, DC, USA
2022 The Power of Portraiture: Recent Acquisitions, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University | Durham, NC, USA
2022 Benefit Auction 2022, Silver Eye Center for Photography | Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2022 Y’all Don’t Hear Me, East Tennessee State University, Slocumb Gallery | Johnson City, TN, USA
2022 Pittsburgh Paints, Office of the Mayor of the City of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2022 All that Glitters, Chautauqua Institution | Chautauqua, NY, USA
2022 International Photography Awards: 2021 Winners & Best of Show Exhibition, House of Lucie Budapest | Budapest, Hungary
2022 In A Pot of Hot Soup, Brunei Gallery, SOAS University of London | London, United Kingdom
2021 In Relation to Power: Politically Engaged Works from the Collection, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University | Durham, NC, USA
2021 Art on the Walls, Allegheny Conference on Community Development & Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council | Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2021 Gathered Locally, Pittsburgh Glass Center | Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2021 Art & Protest: Artists as Agents of Social Change, Middlebury College Museum of Art | Middlebury, VT,USA
2021 Future Past: Photolucida's CriticalMass Top 50 Group Exhibition, Curated by Elizabeth Avedon, Center for Photographic Art | Carmel, CA, USA
2021 Art in the Plague Year, California Museum of Photography | Riverside, CA, USA
2020 Tate Lates, Tate Modern | London, United Kingdom
2020 Yerevan Biennial 2020, Yerevan Biennial | Yerevan, Armenia
2020 Visualizing Social Isolation and Social Injustices through the Davidson College Art Collection: From Pandemic to Protests, Van Every / Smith Galleries| Davidson, NC, USA
2019 Utopian Imagination, Ford Foundation Gallery | New York, NY, USA
2019 Three Rivers Art Festival 2019, Three Rivers Art Festival | Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2019 FotoEvidenceBook Award Exhibit, Bronx Documentary Center | Bronx, NY, USA
2019 World Press Photo, World Press Photo Exhibition | Amsterdam, Netherlands
2019 Owning, Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council | Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2019 The Self, Realized: queering the art of self-portraiture, The Brew House Gallery | Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2018 Queering the Gaze: Zanele Muholi & Mikael Owunna, alpha nova & galerie futura | Berlin, Germany
2017 Black(s) to the Future: Festival #2, Petit Bain | Paris, France
2017 BLACK NUANCE SHADE, Blank Canvas Gallery | Toronto, Canada
2016 Massimadi Art Festival, Massimadi PhotoGallery | Montréal, Canada
2015 I am Atayal (Tayen)! 我是泰雅族 !, Changhua County Indigenous Peoples Activity Center | Changhua City, Taiwan
2015 I am Atayal (Tayen)! 我是泰雅族 !, Taoyuan County Indigenous Culture Center |
Taoyuan, Taiwan
2015 I am Atayal (Tayen)! 我是泰雅族 !, Wulai Atayal Museum | New Taipei City, Taiwan
2014 I am Atayal (Tayen)! 我是泰雅族 !, Nan’ao Atayal Cultural Museum | Nanao, Taiwan
2014 I am Atayal (Tayen)! 我是泰雅族 !, National Taiwan Museum | Taipei, Taiwan
NFT EXHIBITIONS
2022 Refraction Festival – African NFTCommunity, Future of Cities Innovation + Climate Hub | Miami, FL, USA
2022 Reconstructing the Primordial House, North Carolina Museum of Art | Raleigh, NC, USA
2022 Y’all Don’t Hear Me, East Tennessee State University, Slocumb Gallery | Johnson City, TN, USA
2022 DISRUPT_, Curated by GlitchOfMind, Cyber_YuYu & Sixela, Het Nieuwe Institute | Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2022 DISRUPT_, Curated by GlitchOfMind, Cyber_YuYu & Sixela, Spatial.Io | Metaverse
2022 SemperNova, Curated Linda Dounia, ZORATOPIA, NFT NYC | New York City, NY, USA
2022 I See Red, Art Fair Philippines 2022 | Manilla, Philippines
2022 Sacred Roots, Art Dubai 2022 | Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2022 Afrofuturism, Curated by Michael Kwame Brako, PortionApp | Metaverse
2022 Embodiment- A NFT Group Photography Exhibition, Curated by Maya Futrell, NFT Oasis | Metaverse
2021 CryptoBending, Curated by GlitchOfMind, Het Nieuwe Institute | Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2021 CyberBaat, Digital Art Fair Asia 2021 | Hong Kong, China
2021 CyberBaat, Digital Art Fair Asia 2021 | Metaverse
2021 CyberBaat Redux, NFT Oasis | Metaverse
2021 Distorted Realities: Cyber Baat, Jëndalma Art & Design| Dakar, Senegal
2021 Distorted Realities: Cyber Baat, Foundation.app | Metaverse
2021 Artwalk, NFT Oasis | Metaverse
BOOKS & CATALOGUES
2021 Cosmologies, ClampArt New York City, Luminosity Lab
2019 Limitless Africans, Mikael Owunna, FotoEvidence | ISBN: 978-1-7324711-2-2
2018 Flash Forward 2018: Emerging Photographers from Canada and the World, Magenta Foundation | ISBN: 978-1-926856-15-5
LIVE PERFORMANCE
2024 Opening the Mouth, The Rainbow Serpent Collective directed by Marques Redd and Mikael Owunna; Choreographed by Ursula Payne Premiere: The Pittsburgh Glass Center (Pittsburgh, PA) | May 3
2023 The Four World Ages, The Rainbow Serpent Collective directed by Marques Redd and Mikael Owunna; Choreographed by Marquita Sams Premiere: The Yard (Martha’s Vineyard, MA) | July 29
FILM
2024 Blackstar Sanctuary, Directed by Marques Redd and Mikael Owunna
2023 Obi mbu (la maison primordiale) – édition française, Directed by Mikael Owunna and Marques Redd
2021 Obi Mbu (The Primordial House), Directed by Mikael Owunna and Marques Redd
FILM SCREENINGS
2024 Blackstar Sanctuary, Pittsburgh Glass Center | Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2024 Obi Mbu (The Primordial House), North Carolina State University | Raleigh, NC, USA
2023 Obi Mbu (The Primordial House), Columbus State University | Columbus, GA, USA
2023 Obi mbu (la maison primordiale) – édition française, Middlebury College | Middlebury, VT, USA
2023 Obi Mbu (The Primordial House),Miller Institute for Contemporary Art – Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh,PA, USA
2023 Obi Mbu (The Primordial House), University of Pittsburgh Frick Fine Arts Building | Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2023 Obi Mbu (The Primordial House), National Museum of African-American History and Culture | Washington, DC, USA
2023 Obi Mbu (The Primordial House), MIT Media Lab | Cambridge, MA, USA
2023 Obi Mbu (The Primordial House), Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2023 Obi Mbu (The Primordial House), Chaffey College | Rancho Cucamonga, CA, USA
2022 Obi Mbu (The Primordial House), Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2022 Obi Mbu (The Primordial House), StanfordUniversity: Silicon Valley Archives | Stanford, CA, USA
2022 Obi Mbu (The Primordial House), The Esalen Institute| Big Sur, CA, USA
2022 Obi Mbu (The Primordial House), North Carolina Museum of Art | Raleigh, NC, USA
2022 Obi Mbu (The Primordial House), AlphaLab | Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2022 Obi Mbu (The Primordial House), Mariposa Museum & World Cultural Center | Martha’s Vineyard, MA, USA
2022 Obi Mbu (The Primordial House), The Chautauqua Institution | Chautauqua, NY, USA
2022 Obi Mbu (The Primordial House), Kelly Strayhorn Theater | Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2021 Obi Mbu (The Primordial House), The Esalen Institute | Big Sur, CA, USA
2021 Obi Mbu (The Primordial House), CAM Raleigh |Raleigh, NC, USA
2021 Obi Mbu (The Primordial House), Iris Project | LosAngeles, CA, USA
2021 Obi Mbu (The Primordial House), ClampArt | New YorkCity, NY, USA
DOCUMENTARY APPEARANCE
2024 Futures Without Guns, University City Science Center, Directed by Kyra Knox | Role: Mikael Owunna as self
2022 The Photographers – Short Docs Celebrate Black Artists, WQED Pittsburgh, Directed by Ash Warren | Role: Mikael Owunna as self.
2021 LIMITLESS, WQED Pittsburgh, Directed by Ash Warren | Role: Mikael Owunna as self.
CURATORIAL WORK
2022 Miracles in Motion, PNC Park: Urban Garden, Curated by Mikael Owunna Studios and The Redd Studio | Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2022 Art as Liberation: Celebrating Black Art in Pittsburgh, PNC Park: Federal Street, Curated by Mikael Owunna Studios and The Redd Studio, in collaboration with 1HoodMedia, Pittsburgh Pirates | Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2021 Art as Liberation: Celebrating Black Art in Pittsburgh, City of Asylum, Curated by Mikael Owunna Studios, in collaboration with 1Hood Media | Pittsburgh, PA,USA
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (PRINTS)
Centre Never Apart, Montreal, Canada
Davidson College Van Every / Smith Galleries, Davidson, NC
Delta Health Center, Mound Bayou, MS
Duke University Pratt School of Engineering, Durham, NC
Equal Justice Initiative, Montgomery, AL
Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
National Taiwan Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
UPMC Mercy Pavilion,, Pittsburgh, PA
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (MONOGRAPHS)
Duke University Library, Durham, NC
Hennepin County Libraries, Minneapolis, MN
Iowa State University Library, Ames, IA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
School of the Art Institute of Chicago Library, Chicago, IL
Umeå University Library, Umeå, Sweden
University of Liverpool Library, Liverpool, United Kingdom
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Library, Chapel Hill, NC
University of North Carolina Charlotte Library, Charlotte, NC
University of North Carolina Greensboro Library, Greensboro, NC
Wayne State College Library, Wayne, NE
AWARDS
2023 Pittsburgh Visual Artist of the Year, Pittsburgh City Paper | Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2022 Creative Capital: Shortlist 2022 | New York City, NY, USA
2021 Carol R. Brown Award: Established Artist of the Year, Finalist | Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2021 Best in Show Selection, The International Photography Awards | New York City, NY, USA
2021 Professional Fine Art Photographer of the Year, The International Photography Awards | New York City, NY, USA
2021 Emmy Nomination for “LIMITLESS” by WQED, Mid-Atlantic Regional Emmy Awards | Garnet Valley, PA, USA
2021 The Silver List | Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2020 Independent Publisher Book Award forGay/Lesbian/Bi/Trans Non-Fiction
2019 NPR: Favorite Photos & Illustrations of 2019 |Washington, D.C., USA
2019 Photolucida: Critical Mass Top 50 | Portland, OR, USA
2019 YWCA Racial Justice Award: Creativity and Innovation Award| Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2019 Three Rivers Art Festival: Juror’s Award | Pittsburgh, PA,USA
2019 FotoEvidence Book Award with World Press Photo | Amsterdam,Netherlands
2018 Photolucida: Critical Mass Top 200 | Portland, OR, USA
2018 Review Santa Fe | Santa Fe, NM, USA
2018 Magenta Foundation Flash Forward 2018 | Toronto, Canada
2018 CDS Documentary Essay Prize: Finalist | Durham, NC, USA
2018 Robert Giard Fellowship: Finalist | New York, NY, USA
2018 New York Times Portfolio Review | New York, NY, USA
2017 Head On Photo Awards: Best Portrait Semi-finalist | Sydney,Australia
PUBLIC EDUCATION PROGRAMMING
2024 August Wilson African American Cultural Center | Pittsburgh, PA, USA | Poetry Unplugged
2023 Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA | Creative Community Collab
2023 Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA | LGBTQ Youth Night
2022 Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA | GLOW
2022 Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, Pittsburgh, PA, USA | Finding Your Artistic Voice
2022 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh, PA, USA | Lift Every Voice
2022 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh, PA, USA | Origin Stories
2022 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh, PA, USA | School time: Origin Stories
2021 Hazelwood Local, Pittsburgh, PA, USA | Illumin-Ave
2021 Everyday Café, Pittsburgh, PA, USA | Juneteenth Brunch and Conversation with Larry Ossei-Mensah and Mikael Owunna
2021 Maker’s Clubhouse, Pittsburgh, PA, USA | STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering,Art, and Math) Workshop
2021 1Hood Media, Pittsburgh, PA, USA | What Black Pittsburgh Needs to Know about Juneteenth
SELECT ARTIST TALKS
2024 Ellis School for Girls | Artist Critiques
2024 Brew House Association | Artist Critiques
2024 North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC | Black Transfigurations
2023 Columbus State University, Columbus, GA | Of Dawn: Virtual Conversation with Cara Romero, Mikael Owunna, and shauna caldwell
2023 Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH | GAPP Artist in Residence: Mikael Owunna
2023 University of Pittsburgh Center for African Studies, Pittsburgh, PA | Let’s Talk Africa: Black Transfigurations
2023 University of Arizona Honors College, Tuscon, AZ | Afrofuturism In Conversation: Mikael Owunna and Dr. Meg Jackson Fox
2023 Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco,CA | Artists in the Studio: Mikael Owunna
2023 Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh,PA | Hacking Photography
2023 University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA | Studio Arts in Dialogue: Mikael Owunna and Alisha Wormsley
2023 MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA | Beyond the Cradle: Space & the Arts Panel
2023 World University Service of Canada,Ottawa, Canada | 12th International Forum: Leaving No One Behind: SOGIESC considerations in global development
2022 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA | Black Transfigurations
2022 Chaffey College, Cucamonga, CA, USA | Black Transfigurations
2022 Office of Public Art, Pittsburgh, PA,USA | Living and Working as an Independent Artist
2022 Grantmakers in the Arts, New York City, NY, USA | Panel: Support for Individual Artists
2022 August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA | Lit Fridays: Marques Redd and Mikael Owunna with Host Jessica Lanay
2022 Point Park University, Pittsburgh, PA,USA | Finding Your Artistic Voice
2022 New York University Institute forPublic Knowledge, New York City, NY, USA | Co-Opting AI: Photography
2022 University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh,PA, USA | Visual Rhetoric: Mikael Owunna
2022 August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA | time + space: Jessica Gaynelle Moss, Mikael Owunna, Shani Peters
2022 SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA, USA |Towards Eternal: Reflections on Black Futurity and Imagining Panel Conversation with Nykelle DeVivo and Mikael Owunna, Moderated by Ra Malika Imhotep
2021 Iris Project Gallery, Venice, CA, USA| Reconstructing the Primordial House: Artist Tour
2021 Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT, USA | Artists in Dialogue: Jon Henry and Mikael Owunna
2021 CAM Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, USA | Artist Conversation: Dr. Amanda Maples, Mikael Owunna and Alun Be
2021 California Institute of Technology,Pasadena, CA, USA | Black Transfigurations: Engineering, African Cosmologies & Visual Media
2021 Intersect Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA | Black Transfigurations
2021 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra,Pittsburgh, PA, USA | International Women's Forum: Mikael Owunna & Shantanique Moore in Conversation
2021 Fulbright Prism, Washington, DC, USA | Fulbright Conversations: Mikael Owunna
2021 Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, USA | Cosmologies, the exhibit and the catalogue to make it eternal
2021 California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA, USA | Infinite Essence
2021 Prizer Arts and Letters, Austin, TX, USA | Infinite Essence
2021 Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA | Art and the Transfiguration of Police Violence
2021 Duke University, Durham, NC, USA | Black & LGBTQ+ at Duke - A Journey in Resilience and Progress
2021 SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA, USA | In Conversation: Mikael Owunna and Jonathan Calm
2021 Duke University, Durham, NC, USA | Left of Black: Exploring Black Cosmologies Through the Art of Mikael Owunna
2020 Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom | Tate Lates
2020 University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA | Global Health Equity Lecture Series
2020 Colby College, Waterville, ME, USA | Panel: Disrupting Norms of Representation
2020 Indiana University Bloomington,Bloomington, IN, USA | Indiana Switchgrass
2020 August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA | Lit Fridays: Mikael Owunna and Jari Bradley with Host Jessica Lanay
2020 SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA, USA | SF Camerawork Artist Showcase
2020 Van Every / Smith Galleries, Davidson,NC, USA | Artist Talk with Mikael Owunna, Katyayani Singh, and Shan Kelley
2020 University of Pittsburgh School of Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, USA | PITT STRIVE
2020 TEDx TrinityCollege, Hartford, CT, USA | Transcending the Body
2020 Fotografiska New York, New York, NY, USA | Limitless Africans : Panel
2019 University of North Carolina - ChapelHill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA | Reimagining the Black & Queer Body
2019 Duke University Center for Documentary Studies, Durham, NC, USA | Limitless Africans
2019 Davidson College, Davidson, NC, USA | Limitless Africans
2019 University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA | Black in the Middle Symposium
2019 Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, USA | Limitless Africans
2019 Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, USA | Limitless Africans
2019 Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA, USA | Limitless Africans
2019 World Press Photo, Amsterdam, the Netherlands | Crisis Ethics: Social Justice in Photography
2019 Black Archives, Amsterdam, the Netherlands | Reimagining the Black Body
2019 Columbia Law School, New York, NY, USA | Speaker: Paul Robeson Conference
2019 University of North Carolina -Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA | Keynote Lecture : Art History Symposium
2019 The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC, USA | Finding Your Artistic Voice
2018 Duke University, Durham, NC, USA | Finding Your Artistic Voice
2018 Center for Documentary Studies, Durham, NC, USA | Guest of Honor : 2018
2018 Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA | Limit(less)
2018 alpha nova & galerie futura, Berlin, Germany | Queering the Gaze
2017 Paris Institute of Political Studies – Reims, Reims, France| Limit(less)
2017 Sune Jonsson Center of Documentary Photography, Umeå, Sweden| Limit(less)
2017 Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, USA | Limit(less)
2017 Centre Never Apart, Montréal, Canada | Limit(less)
2016 American University, Washington, DC USA | Limit(less)
2016 Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA | Limit(less)
2016 World Social Forum 2016, Montréal, Canada | Limit(less)
BOOK COVERS
2024 On Blackness, Liveliness, and What it Means to be Human: Toward Black Specificity in Higher Education, Dr. Wilson Kwamogi Okello, State University of New York Press | Forthcoming
2023 In Gorgeous Display, Ugochukwu Damian Okpara, Fordham University Press |Forthcoming
SELECT ACADEMIC COVERAGE
2024 On Blackness, Liveliness, and What it Means to be Human: Toward Black Specificity in Higher Education, Dr. Wilson Kwamogi Okello, State University of New York Press | Forthcoming
2023 Freedom Struggles in Urban Appalachia: Resisting Pittsburgh’s Schools, Prisons, and Carcerality, Ed.Juwan Bennett and Christy McGuire, University Press of Kentucky | Forthcoming
2023 Queering Appalachia's Visual History: A Collection of Queer Appalachian Photographers, Ed. Julie RaePowers, University Press of Kentucky | Forthcoming
2023 As We See It – Artists Reshaping Black Identity, Aida Amoako, Laurence King Publishing | ISBN:978-1-78627-958-3
2021 ASAP/ Journal, Vol. 6.2 (May 2021) “New Worlds of Speculation,” John Hopkins University Press | ISSN:2381-4705
2021 Crisis Contemplation: Healing the Wounded Village, Barbara A. Holmes, CAC Publishing | ISBN: 978-1623050559
2020 Black in the Middle: An Anthology of the Black Midwest, Edited by Terrion L. Williamson, Belt Publishing | ISBN:978-1-948742-69-6
SELECT PRINT MAGAZINES
2021 Aint-Bad Magazine, No. 15 | ISBN: 978-1-944005-48-1
2019 Mindful, Vol. 7, No. 4, October 2019, “Infinite as the Universe” by Amber Tucker | USPS: 010-500
2019 PDN: Photo District News, Vol.XXXIX, Issue 7, September/October 2019, “Celebrating Queerness in the African Diaspora” by Conor Risch | USPS: 549-030
SELECT PRINT NEWSPAPERS
2022 The Chautauquan Daily. “Undervalued themes, materials focus of ‘All that Glitters’” by Will Karr. Weekend Edition, July 16 & 17, 2022. Pages C5-C6.
2022 Pittsburgh City Paper. “Clothes Make… Mikael Owunna” by Tereneh Idia. Jun 22, 2022. Volume 31, Issue 25.
2020 The Guardian. “Four queer women defying the snow: Mikael Owunna’s best photograph” by Dale Berning Sawa. Aug20, 2020.
2019 Pittsburgh City Paper. “LGBTQ+artists assert their identities for The Self, Realized: Queering the Art of Self-Portraiture” by Amanda Waltz. Jan 9, 2019.
SELECT RADIO
2022 Saturday Light Brigade Radio. “Interview: Art as Liberation, Mikael Owunna and Marques Redd” by SLB Radio. Jun 11, 2022. (link)
2022 WESA.“Dance film depicting Igbo creation story makes Pittsburgh premiere” by Bill O’Driscoll. Feb 23, 2022. (link)
2021 Saturday Light Brigade Radio. “Interview: Mikael Owunna, Illumin-Ave” by SLB Radio.Dec 4, 2021. (link)
2021 WESA. “Pittsburgh-Based Photographer Plumbs the ‘Infinite Essence’ of Black Bodies” by Bill O’Driscoll. July 15, 2021. (link)
2020 Sveriges Radio. “Mikael Owunnavill skapa nya bilder av svarta kroppar [Mikael Owunna wants to create newimages of black bodies]” by Mina Benaissa. June 10, 2020. (link)
SELECT PODCASTS
2022 Arts Management and TechnologyLaboratory – Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA | Techin the Arts: UltravioletLight And Creative Engineering For Photography With Mikael Owunna
2022 CityCast.FM, Pittsburgh, PA, USA | OriginStories: Marques Redd & Mikael Owunna
2021 The Cosmic We with Barbara Holmes and Donny Bryant | Rediscovering Our Origins with Mikael Owunna
2021 Tech Intersect with Tonya M. Evans | #78: Mikael Owunna-Artistic Empowerment through Crypto, Art & Identity
2020 The Heinz Endowments, Pittsburgh, PA,USA | We Can Be Podcast (S03EP01)
SELECT TV APPEARANCES
2023 KDKA Talk Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA,USA | Artist Mikael Owunna unveils new art going on display at The AndyWarhol Museum (link)
2022 Pittsburgh Today Live, Pittsburgh, PA,USA | Previewing the Cultural District’s Fall Gallery Crawl
2022 WPXI News, Pittsburgh, PA, USA | Art as Liberation
2022 WTAE Pittsburgh News, PA, USA | Take a look at Pittsburgh's Juneteenth celebrations
2021 WPXI News, Pittsburgh, PA, USA | Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Unveiling: Playing the Cosmic Strings
2021 CBS Pittsburgh News, Pittsburgh, PA,USA | Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Unveiling: Playing the Cosmic Strings
2021 WPGH Fox 53 Pittsburgh News, PA, USA | Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Unveiling:Playing the Cosmic Strings
2021 WTAE Pittsburgh News, PA, USA | Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Unveiling: Playing the Cosmic Strings
2021 WPXI News, Pittsburgh, PA, USA | Art as Liberation: Celebrating Black Art in Pittsburgh
2021 CBS Pittsburgh News, Pittsburgh, PA,USA | Art as Liberation: Celebrating Black Art in Pittsburgh
2021 WPGH Fox 53 Pittsburgh News, PA, USA | Art as Liberation: Celebrating Black Art in Pittsburgh
2021 WTAE Pittsburgh News, PA, USA | Art as Liberation: Celebrating Black Art inPittsburgh
ADDITIONAL MEDIA APPEARANCES
2022 Youth Express. “Youth Events:Art as Liberation” by Lance Wilhelm and Jules Smalis. Jun 24, 2022. (link)
2021 The Medicine Shell. “Obi Mbu(The Movie) - Igbo Creation Myth Brought to Life by Dr. Mikael Owunna and Dr. Marques Redd” by Derick Ofodirinwa. Nov 8, 2021. (link)
2021 1Hood Media. “Art is Liberation:Celebrating Black Art in Pittsburgh” by 1Hood Media. Sept 15, 2021. (link)
2021 1Hood Media. “What Black Pittsburgh Needs to Know | About Juneteenth” by 1Hood Media. June 15, 2021. (link)
2021 Left of Black. “Exploring Black Cosmologies Through the Art of Mikael Owunna” by Dr. Mark Anthony Neal. Feb 4,2021. (link)
2018 AJ Plus. “Heavenly Black Bodies” By AJ Plus. June 3, 2018. (link)
PRESS & MEDIA COVERAGE
2024 Pittsburgh City Paper “Experience the radiant glass deities of Myth-Science of the Gatekeepers at Pittsburgh Glass Center” by Sean Beauford. May 08, 2024. (link)
2023 The Bay Area Reporter. “Queer African-centric retreat coming to Big Sur” by Heather Cassel. May 10, 2023. (link)
2023 feature shoot.“Body Positive Photography: The Artists Defining a Genre” by Ellyn Kail. May 3, 2023. (link)
2023 Black Pittsburgh. “Marques Redd and Mikael Owunna Found the Rainbow Serpent” by Black Pittsburgh. Apr 25, 2023. (link)
2023 90.5 WESA. “Artsets the tone in new Pittsburgh hospital building” by Bill O’Driscoll. Apr 24, 2023. (link)
2023 90.5 WESA. “Restructured Pittsburgh Art & Civic Design Commission is off to a good start” by Bill O’Driscoll.Mar 30, 2023. (link)
2023 90.5 WESA.“Reorganized Pittsburgh art commission OK’s work near Fern Hollow Bridge” by Bill O’Driscoll. Mar 23, 2023. (link)
2023 TRIBLive.“Fern Hollow Bridge to get new artwork along trails beneath span” by Julia Felton. Mar 23, 2023. (link)
2023 TRIBLive.“Members appointed to Pittsburgh's reorganized Art Commission” by Julia Felton. Feb 20, 2023. (link)
2023 Art Plugged. “As We See It, Delves Into The Rich and Diverse Experiences of Black Artists” by Len Gordon. Jan 24, 2023. (link)
2023 90.5 WESA. “Gainey to appoint new members to revamped Pittsburgh art commission” by Julia Zenkevich. Jan 18, 2023. (link)
2022 ArtRKL. “North Carolina Museum of Art Permanent Collections” by Madelyn Kenney. Dec 19, 2022.(link)
2022 NEXTPittsburgh. “25 things to do this week, from the Lawrenceville Cookie Tourto the Queer Craft Market” by Jennifer Baron. Dec 5, 2022. (link)
2022 TRIBLive. “Pittsburgh picks 4 artists to create art installations in Homewood Park” byJulia Felton. Aug 1, 2022. (link)
2022 Pittsburgh City Paper. “Four local artists chosen for public art installations at Homewood Park” by Dontae Washington. July 29, 2022. (link)
2022 The Chautauquan Daily. “Undervalued themes, materials focus of ‘All that Glitters’” by Will Karr. July 15, 2022. (link)
2022 DuquesneLight. “Duquesne Light Company's Juneteenth Celebration Filled with Activities around Pittsburgh” by Duquesne Light. June 22, 2022. (link)
2022 The Day Live.“In a Pot of Hot Soup: A Review of Ground-breaking Creativity of Nigerian artists at Brunei Gallery, SOAS, London” by Charles Gore PhD. June 22, 2022. (link)
2022 Pittsburgh City Paper. “Mikael Owunna makes statement with traditional African prints, tattoos” by Tereneh Idia. June 22, 2022. (link)
2022 Pittsburgh City Paper. “Art as Liberation showcases Black Pittsburgh artists at PNC Park” by Dontae Washington. June 21, 2022. (link)
2022 WTAE. “Take a look at Pittsburgh's Juneteenth celebrations” by Kylie Walker. June 20, 2022. (link)
2022 MLB. “Here's how MLB teams are commemorating Juneteenth” by MLB. June 19, 2022. (link)
2022 MLB. “Pirates Homestand Highlights -- Friday, June 17-Thursday, June 23” by MLB. June 16, 2022. (link)
2022 Pittsburgh City Paper. “Defining a Pittsburgh artist should not be limited to physical borders” by Tereneh Idia. June 15, 2022. (link)
2022 Black Pittsburgh. “Art as Liberation” by Black Pittsburgh. June 14, 2022. (link)
2022 Kidsburgh. “9 family events in Pittsburgh this weekend: movies, concerts, Juneteenth celebrations and more” by Kidsburgh. June 14, 2022. (link)
2022 NEXT Pittsburgh. “22 things to do this week, from Juneteenth to Pride Millvale to Badass CrossStitch” by Jennifer Baron. June 12, 2022. (link)
2022 Pittsburgh City Paper. “Pittsburgh Pirates and 1Hood Media sponsor Juneteenth call for artists” by Dani Janae. May 27, 2022. (link)
2022 Hyperallergic. “NEA Awards $91 Million to Over 1,200 Arts Organizations” by Elaine Velie. May 25, 2022. (link)
2022 90.5 WESA. “Warhol Museum announces expansion in neighborhood with its new 'Pop District'”by Bill O’Driscoll. May 20, 2022. (link)
2022 ArtNet. “The Andy Warhol Museum Is Building a $60 Million, Six-Block ‘Pop District’ in an Attempt to Turn Pittsburgh Into a Cultural Hub” by Sarah Cascone. May 20, 2022. (link)
2022 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “In $60 million initiative, Andy Warhol Museum plans an art-filled Pop District on the North Side” by Marylynne Pitz. May 20, 2022. (link)
2022 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “SEEN: Pittsburgh Glass Center open house” by Patricia Sheridan. May 10, 2022. (link)
2022 Radical Contemporary. “Art Dubai & Digital Futures” by Nour Hassan. Mar 17, 2022. (link)
2022 90.5 WESA.“Dance film depicting Igbo creation story makes Pittsburgh premiere” by Bill O’Driscoll.Feb 23, 2022. (link)
2022 NEXT Pittsburgh.“What to do this week, from Hamilton to Nerd Nite to the Pittsburgh Polar Plunge” by Jennifer Baron. Feb 20, 2022. (link)
2022 SLB Radio.“Interview: Obi Mbu, An Igbo Creation Myth” by SLB Radio. Feb 19, 2022. (link)
2022 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “Diversity a priority in latest Heinz Endowments grants totaling $351,000” by Jeremy Reynolds. Feb 3, 2022. (link)
2022 Pittsburgh City Paper. “The Top Events in Pittsburgh for Jan. 27-Feb. 2” by CP Staff. Jan 26, 2022. (link)
2022 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “Dancers who are raising the bar(re) in 2022” by Sara Bauknecht. Jan 14, 2022. (link)
2022 Cleveland Foundation. “Stardust: An Exploration of Black Futures” by Sinegugu Gasa. Jan 12, 2022. (link)
2022 The Latrobe Bulletin. “The winter, Kelly Strayhorn Theater focuses on art and activism” by Latrobe Bulletin. Jan 7, 2022. (link)
2021 TribLIVE. “Pittsburgh Symphony free program to explore global origin stories” by Shirley McMarlin. Dec 17, 2021. (link)
2021 Black Pittsburgh. “Mikael Owunna Expands Notions of Blackness” by Naomi Harris. Dec 14, 2021. (link)
2021 NEXT Pittsburgh.“What to do this week, from the Lawrenceville Cookie Tour to the We Want the Funk Festival” by Jennifer Baron. Dec 5, 2021. (link)
2021 Pittsburgh City Paper. “Over a month’s worth of holiday events for Pittsburghers of all ages” by Amanda Waltz. Nov 24, 2021. (link)
2021 LA Weekly.“Pictures of You: Arts Calendar: November 4 -10” by Shana Nys Dambrot. Nov 3,2021. (link)
2021 PetaPixel. “These are the Winners of the 2021 International Photography Awards” by Anete Lusina. Nov 3, 2021. (link)
2021 90.5 WESA.“New mural on Pittsburgh’s Heinz Hall celebrates music and African culture” by Bill O’Driscoll. Oct 5, 2021. (link)
2021 The Advocate.“Mikael Owunna Imagines the Cosmos in the Nude Black Body in 6 Works” by Christopher Harrity. Sept 17, 2021. (link)
2021 Foundation.“Enter Linda Dounia’s Cyber Baat World” by Samantha Ayson. Sept 8, 2021. (link)
2021 BOMB. “In Some Far-off Place, Many Light Years in Space, I’ll Wait for You: Mikael Owunna Interviewed by Jessica Lanay” by Jessica Lanay. July 19, 2021. (link)
2021 Artnet News.“10 New Murals Will Pop Up Across New York This Summer Thanks to a New Professional Development Initiative for Black Artists” by Taylor Dafoe. June 18, 2021. (link)
2021 Pittsburgh City Paper. “Infinite Essence: Celestial Liberation spreads empowering Black artwork on billboards throughout Pittsburgh” by Amanda Waltz.June 18, 2021. (link)
2021 featureshoot. “A Public Exhibition Celebrates The Beauty and Transcendence of the Black Body” by Ellyn Kail. June 17, 2021. (link)
2021 Pittsburgh Magazine. “Celebrate Juneteenth This Weekend With Several Events Happening In Pittsburgh” by Kaitlyn Nuebel. June 17, 2021. (link)
2021 90.5 WESA. “Black Artists Celebrate Juneteenth in Pittsburgh With An Art Fair” by Bill O’Driscoll. June 17, 2021. (link)
2021 TribLIVE. “Pittsburgh artist’s billboard art transforms image of Black bodies” by Shirley McMarlin. June 15, 2021. (link)
2021 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “The art and music of Juneteenth in Pittsburgh” by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. June 15, 2021. (link)
2021 NEXT Pittsburgh.“Local artist celebrates Black life on digital billboards for Juneteenth” by Michael Machosky. June 14, 2021. (link)
2021 NEXT Pittsburgh.“What to do this week in Pittsburgh, from Juneteenth and Pride to Magnificent Motown” by Jennifer Baron. June 13, 2021. (link)
2021 Pittsburgh City Paper. “Silver Eye Center for Photography opens two new exhibits featuring local and national artists” by Amanda Waltz. May 7, 2021. (link)
2021 ASAP/Journal,Volume 6, Number 2, May 2021. “Blackness Unbound: An Interview with Mikael Owunna” by Maia Gil’Adí, Justin L. Mann. May 1, 2021. (link)
2021 Austin Chronicle. “Prizer Arts & Letters: Infinite Essence” by Austin Chronicle. Apr 10, 2021. (link)
2021 LA Weekly. “‘Art in the PlagueYear’ Processes the Experience” by Shana Nys Dambrot. Mar 18, 2021. (link)
2021 Artnet. “Hollywood Has the ‘Black List’ for Undiscovered Screenplays. Now, Photography Has a ‘Silver List’ for Up-and-Coming Photographers” by Taylor Dafoe. Feb 15, 2021. (link)
2021 The Tribune Review. “Silver Eye Center for Photography creates list of artists worth watching” by Shirley McMarlin. Feb 15, 2021. (link)
2021 LENSCRATCH. “Art in the PlagueYear” by Aline Smithson. Feb 14, 2021. (link)
2021 Vanity Fair. “Introducing the Inaugural Silver List, Featuring 47 Exciting Contemporary Photographers Whose Work You Just Have to See” by Katey Rich. Feb 11, 2021. (link)
2020 Humble Arts Foundation. “Astro-Black Mythology: in Conversation with Mikael Owunna” by Jon Feinstein. Sept 24, 2020.(link)
2020 The Guardian. “Four queer women defying the snow: Mikael Owunna’s best photograph” by Dale Berning Sawa. Aug 19,2020. (link)
2020 Aperture. “Mikael Owunna’s Photographs Show the Essence of Black Healing” by Amber Hickey and Anney Traymany. June 4, 2020. (link)
2019 NPR. “Favorite Photos And Illustrations Of 2019” by Emily Bogle. Dec 30, 2019. (link)
2019 Hyperallergic. “Imagining Utopia, Just Over the Horizon” by Seph Rodney. Dec 4, 2019. (link)
2019 The Guardian. “Queer continent:Mikael Owunna’s Limitless Africans – in pictures” by The Guardian. Nov 12,2019. (link)
2019 NPR. “‘Un-African’? Photos Challenge Notions Of LGBTQ Identity In The African Diaspora” by Isabella Gomez Sarmiento. Nov 2, 2019. (link)
2019 GARAGE Magazine. “‘Imagining a Utopian Future” by Nadja Sayej. Oct 20, 2019. (link)
2019 VICE. “‘Limitless Africans’ Is a Stunning Snapshot of LGBTQ African Immigrant Lives” by Jonathan Feinstein. Oct 11, 2019. (link)
2019 CNN. “Candid portraits explore the lives of LGBTQ African migrants” by Mikael Owunna. Oct 10, 2019. (link)
2019 Cheese Konbini. “Rencontre: la communauté LGBTQ+ de la diaspora africaine immortalisée par Mikael Owunna” by Lise Lanot. Oct 1, 2019. (link)
2019 British Journal of Photography.“Our pick of books and exhibitions arriving in October” by British Journal of Photography. Oct 1, 2019. (link)
2019 Photo District News. “New Photo Book Celebrates Queerness in the African Diaspora” by Conor Risch. Sept 16, 2019. (link)
2019 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “Two foundations award $169,000 in grants to 15 local artists” by Marlynne Pitz. Jun 12, 2019. (link)
2019 Süddeutsche Zeitung. “Neue Fotografie: Bilder queerer, afrikanischer Menschen von Mikael Owunna” by Simon Sales Prado. Apr 23, 2019. (link)
2019 Colossal.“Black Bodies Painted and Photographed Like the Cosmos by Mikael Owunna” by Andrew Lasane. Apr 7, 2019. (link)
2019 Art Critique. “Changing the narrative: Mikael Owunna’s ‘Infinite Essence’” by Katherine Keener. Mar 18, 2019. (link)
2019 BuzzFeed. “10 Photo Stories That Will Challenge Your View of the World” by Gabriel H. Sanchez and Kate Bubacz. Mar 9, 2019. (link)
2019 NPR.“‘Every Black Person Deserves To See Themselves This Way” by Becky Harlan. Mar 3, 2019. (link)
2019 Format Magazine. “20 Fine Art Photographers Redefining the Medium” by Jill Blackmore Evans. Feb 28, 2019. (link)
2019 WESA: Pittsburgh’s NPR News Station. “Exhibit Showcases Self-Portraits By LGBTQ Artists” By Bill O’Driscoll. Jan 9, 2019. (link)
2019 Pittsburgh City Paper. “LGBTQ+ artists assert their identities for The Self, Realized: Queering the Art of Self-Portraiture” By Amanda Waltz. Jan 9, 2019. (link)
2018 The New York Times. “Drawing a Portrait of L.G.B.T.Q Life” By Mikael Owunna. June 16, 2018. (link)
2018 The New York Times. “Pride and Self-Love in the L.G.B.T.Q AfricanDiaspora” By Jake Naughton. Mar 19, 2018. (link)
2018 AFROPUNK. “Queer and Trans African Women Are Celebrated in this Photo Series for Women’s History Month” By Eye Candy. Mar 6, 2018. (link)
2018 Okay Africa. “This Photo Series Is a Much-Needed Counter to Violent Images of the Black Body” By Antoinette Isama. Jan 18, 2018. (link)
2017 AFROPUNK. “‘Beautiful photo series explores the connections between the black body, the universe and the eternal” By Eye Candy. Dec 28, 2017. (link)
2017 Teen Vogue. “‘Limit(less)’ LGBTQ African Immigrants Photo Series Reframes Identity” By Lexie Bean. Oct 12, 2017. (link)
2017 Artsy. “Photographers Who Have Captured LGBTQ Life in the African Diaspora” By Yelena Keller. Aug 16, 2017. (link)
2017 TÊTU. “Cette série photo célèbre l’alliance vibrante des identités queer et africaines” By TÊTU. Aug 4, 2017. (link)
2017 BuzzFeed. “8 Incredible Photo Stories You Absolutely Can’t Miss” By BuzzFeed. June 23, 2017. (link)
2017 The Root. “Limit(less) Reminds Us that Africans Can Be Queer, Too, and Debunks Stereotypes” By Preston Mitchum. June 23, 2017. (link)
2017 Konbini. “‘Limit(less)’: Mikael Owunna Captures LGBTQ Africans In This Powerful Series” By Daniel Orubo. June 19, 2017.(link)
2017 Les inRockuptibles. “Mikael Owunna shoote les looks émancipateurs de la diaspora africaine LGBTQ” By Hélène Brunet-Rivaillon. June 18, 2017. (link)
2017 PBS Newshour. “How one photographer is challenging the myth that being LGBTQ is ‘un-African’” By Kamaria Roberts. June 9, 2017. (link)
2017 Sveriges Radio. “Bristen på HBTQ-förebilderska förändras i fotoprojektet Limitless” By Sveriges Radio. May 31, 2017. (link)
2017 Yagg. “Mikael Owunna, photographe: «Je travaille à capturer des images positives et émancipatrices des personnes LGBTQ africaines»” By Xavier Héraud. May 30, 2017. (link)
2017 76 Crimes. “Photos’ goal: Prove that being LGBTQ isn’t ‘un-African’” By Colin Stewart. May 29, 2017. (link)
2017 SBS. “A photographer’s portraits of queer Africans using fashion to reclaim their culture” By SBS. May 27, 2017. (link)
2017 Griot. “Mikael Owunna’s Limit(less) project debunks the idea that being LGBTQ is Un-African” By Theophilus KwesiImani. May 27, 2017. (link)
2017 GOOD. “A Photographer Captures LGBTQ Africans Around The Globe” By GOOD. May 26, 2017. (link)
2017 Gay Times. “How this artist is debunking the myth that it is ‘un-African’ to be LGBT+” By Lewis Corner. May 23, 2017. (link)
2017 New Now Next. “Nigerian Photographer Dispels the Myth That Being LGBT is ‘un-African’” By Jesse Steinbach. May 22, 2017. (link)
2017 AJ Plus. “Is being queer un-African?” By AJ Plus. May 19, 2017. (link)
2017 Mashable. “Stunning photo series celebrates the complex identity of LGBTQ Africans” By Katie Dupere. May 19, 2017. (link)
2017 Huffington Post. “Stunning Photos Debunk the Myth That Queerness is ‘un-African’” By Priscilla Frank. May 16, 2017. (link)
2017 The Daily Beast. “Limit(less): Moving Portraits of LGBTQ African Immigrants” By The Daily Beast. May 16, 2017. (link)
2017 AFROPUNK. “The styles and stories of LGBTQ African immigrants get highlighted in #LimitlessAfricans photo-documentary project” By AFROPUNK. May 15, 2017. (link)
2017 NPR. “Picturing Queer Africans in the Diaspora” By Leah Donnella. May 12, 2017. (link)
2017 Cassius Life. “This Artist is Showing the World What LGBTQ+ African Immigrants Look Like” By Barbara Gonzalez. May 10, 2017. (link)
2017 Upworthy. “13 gorgeous photos reveal what it’s like to be LGBTQ and African.” By Erin Canty. May 9, 2017. (link)
2017 Quartz. “A photographer’s portraits of queer Africans using fashion to reclaim their culture.” By Lynsey Chutel. Apr 25, 2017. (link)
2017 BuzzFeed. “This Stunning Photo Series Is Highlighting The Experiences Of LGBT African Immigrants” By Sarah Karlan. Mar 6, 2017. (link)
2017 Never Apart. “Mikael Owunna: Reaching Beyond Limits” By Mikela Jay. Feb 17, 2017. (link)
2017 Design Indaba. “Limit(less) by Mikael Owunna: LGBTQ style in the African diaspora” By Lindsay Samson. Feb 14, 2017. (link)
2017 Okay Africa. “The Limit(less) Project Explores Black Love Beyond the Norm with 4 Queer African Women” By Antoinette Isama. Feb 9, 2017. (link)
2016 i-D. “An Ambitious Documentary Photo Project Traces LGBTQ Africans in the Diaspora” By Jacqueline Lara. Dec 14, 2016. (link)
2016 POSTURE Magazine. “This Photographer Bridges the Gap Between LGBTQ and African Identities” By Winter Mendelson. Nov 16, 2016. (link)
2016 The Advocate. “LGBT Africans Maintain Their Identity Through Style” By Advocate.com Editors. Sept 22, 2016. (link)
2016 SWERV Magazine. “Limit(less): A Photographic Celebration of LGBTQ Africans” By Clarence J. Fulker. Sept 19, 2016. (link)
2016 AFROPUNK. “Photographer Mikael Owunna Celebrates African LGBTQ Immigrants in new LIMIT(LESS) PhotoProject” By Eye Candy. Sept 14, 2016. (link)
2016 A.Z. Mag. “Mikael Owunna Is Showing the World That LGBT Africans Are Limitless” By Christania DM. Aug19, 2016. (link)
2016 SverigesRadio. “Mikael vill gen y bild av afrikanska HBTQ-personer (Mikael wants to give a new image to LGBTQ Africans)” By Sveriges Radio. Aug 3, 2016. (link)
2016 queer.de. “So queer ist Afrika!” By queer.de. May 1, 2016. (link)
2016 Huffington Post. “This Photo Project Is Redefining What It Means to Be African and LGBTQ.” By Jaimee A. Swift. April 27,2016. (link)
2016 Duke Magazine. “Alumni newsmakers.” By Duke Magazine. March 14, 2016. (link)
2015 PBS. “LGBTQ Africans express identity in ‘Limit(less)’ ways.” By Aisha Jama. August 28, 2015. (link)
2015 Okay Africa. “Limit(less): A Groundbreaking New Photo Project on LGBTQ African Style.” By Jennifer Sefa-Boakye. July 2, 2015. (link)
2014 Taipei Times. “Exhibit shows Atayal children’s empowerment by art.” By Taipei Times Staff Writer. July 11, 2014. (link)
2014 Taiwanese Indigenous TV. “‘I am Atayal (Tayen)!’ Student photography creates exhibition.” (“我是泰雅族" 學童攝影.創作辦展.”) By Takiyu. July 9, 2014. (link)
2014 Sun Travel. “TaiwanMuseum, ‘I am Atayal (Tayen)!’ Exhibition.” (“臺博館「我是泰雅族！」特展.”) By Wu Guihua. July 8, 2014. (link)
2014 CNA. “I am Atayal (Tayen)!” (“我是泰雅族!”) By CNA Staff Writer. July 8, 2014. (link)
2014 Taiwan Wake Up Newspaper. “I am Atayal (Tayen)! Aboriginals study themselves.” (“我是泰雅族！ 原民學習定位自己.”) By Fang Jiamen. July 7, 2014. (link)
2014 Taiwan Ministry of Culture. “Taiwan Museum displays special exhibit ‘I am Atayal (Tayen)!’ ” (“臺博館展出「我是泰雅族！」特展.”) By Taiwan Ministry of Culture Staff Writer. July 7, 2014. (link)
2014 World People News. “‘I am Atayal (Tayen)!’ Taiwan Musuem Special Exhibit .” (“「我是泰雅族 !」特展 臺博館展出.”) By Mary Yan Yan Chan. June 17, 2014 (link)
2014 This Is Africa. “Limit(less) Africans: chronicling the lives of LGBTQ African immigrants in America.” By Atane Ofiaja. February 11, 2014 (link)