Featured In
The New York Times. “Pride and Self-Love in the L.G.B.T.Q African Diaspora” By Jake Naughton. March 19, 2018
NPR. “Every Black Person Deserves To See Themselves This Way” by Becky Harlan. March 3, 2019
CNN. “Candid portraits explore the lives of LGBTQ African migrants” by Mikael Owunna. October 10, 2019
Videos & Podcasts
Co-Opting AI: Photography (New York University Institute for Public Knowledge) (Lorna Roth, PhD, Rashed Haq, Mikael Owunna, Mona Sloane, PhD) March 24, 2022
Obi Mbu (The Movie) - Igbo Creation Myth Brought to Life by Mikael Owunna and Dr. Marques Redd (The Medicine Shell) November 8, 2021
Rediscovering Our Origins with Mikael Owunna (The Cosmic We with Barbara Holmes and Donny Bryant) August 28, 2021
Limitless | Explore the life and work of a captivating LGBTQ+ photographer (WQED Pittsburgh) February 10, 2021
Left of Black | Exploring Black Cosmologies Through the Art of Mikael Owunna (Duke Franklin Humanities Institute) February 4, 2021
Tate Modern | Mikael Owunna (Tate Modern) November 5, 2020
Artist Mikael Owunna reveals inherent beauty, power & dignity of Black & LGBTQ+ bodies (We Can Be with Grant Oliphant, The Heinz Endowments) July 9, 2020
TEDx "Transcending The Body" | MIKAEL CHUKWUMA OWUNNA (TEDxTrinityCollege) May 26, 2020
Mikael Owunna: Precolonial African Sexuality, Contemporary Homophobia, and "Limitless Africans" (Middlebury College Museum of Art) October 17, 2019