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'''Emmanuel Olunkwa''' (b. 1994, Los Angeles, CA) is an artist, writer, editor, and filmmaker.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Emmanuel Olunkwa|url=https://www.poetryproject.org/people/emmanuel-olunkwa|access-date=2021-09-14|website=The Poetry Project}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Nast|first=Condé|date=2021-06-11|title=Emmanuel Olunkwa Designs Functional Furniture With His Intuition|url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/emmanuel-olunkwa-furniture-interview|access-date=2021-09-14|website=Architectural Digest|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-03-24|title=Emmanuel Olunkwa|url=https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/emmanuel-olunkwa|access-date=2021-09-14|website=Interview Magazine|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Hawgood|first=Alex|date=2021-09-18|title=A Multifaceted Designer Gets a New Platform|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/18/style/emmanuel-olunkwa-pin-up-magazine.html|access-date=2021-09-20|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Olunkwa currently serves as the editor of [[Pin-Up Magazine]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=pioneer works olunkwa - Google Search|url=https://www.google.com/search?q=pioneer+works+olunkwa&oq=pioneer+works+olunkwa&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i160l3.6144j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8|access-date=2021-09-14|website=www.google.com}}</ref> In 2020, Olunkwa co-founded November Magazine and served as an editor of The Broadcast, a virtual publication by [[Pioneer Works]] gallery.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=About - November|url=https://novembermag.com/about/about|access-date=2021-09-14|website=About - November|language=en}}</ref> Olunkwa's work has been published in [[Artforum]], [[Interview (magazine)|Interview]], [[Architectural Digest]], [[The New York Times]], [[Museum of Modern Art]], [[Remodelista]], and the [[New Museum]] and he is based in [[New York City|New York]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hawgood|first=Alex|date=2021-09-18|title=A Multifaceted Designer Gets a New Platform|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/18/style/emmanuel-olunkwa-pin-up-magazine.html|access-date=2021-09-20|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>{{Infobox artist
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'''Emmanuel Olunkwa''' (born 1994, Los Angeles, CA) is an artist, writer, editor, and filmmaker.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Emmanuel Olunkwa|url=https://www.poetryproject.org/people/emmanuel-olunkwa|access-date=2021-09-14|website=The Poetry Project}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Nast|first=Condé|date=2021-06-11|title=Emmanuel Olunkwa Designs Functional Furniture With His Intuition|url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/emmanuel-olunkwa-furniture-interview|access-date=2021-09-14|website=Architectural Digest|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-03-24|title=Emmanuel Olunkwa|url=https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/emmanuel-olunkwa|access-date=2021-09-14|website=Interview Magazine|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Hawgood|first=Alex|date=2021-09-18|title=A Multifaceted Designer Gets a New Platform|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/18/style/emmanuel-olunkwa-pin-up-magazine.html|access-date=2021-09-20|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Olunkwa currently serves as the editor of [[Pin-Up Magazine]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=pioneer works olunkwa - Google Search|url=https://www.google.com/search?q=pioneer+works+olunkwa&oq=pioneer+works+olunkwa&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i160l3.6144j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8|access-date=2021-09-14|website=www.google.com}}</ref> In 2020, Olunkwa co-founded November Magazine and served as an editor of The Broadcast, a virtual publication by [[Pioneer Works]] gallery.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=About - November|url=https://novembermag.com/about/about|access-date=2021-09-14|website=About - November|language=en}}</ref> Olunkwa's work has been published in [[Artforum]], [[Interview (magazine)|Interview]], [[Architectural Digest]], [[The New York Times]], [[Museum of Modern Art]], [[Remodelista]], and the [[New Museum]] and he is based in [[New York City|New York]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hawgood|first=Alex|date=2021-09-18|title=A Multifaceted Designer Gets a New Platform|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/18/style/emmanuel-olunkwa-pin-up-magazine.html|access-date=2021-09-20|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>


== Early life and Education ==
== Early life and education ==
Olunkwa was born and raised in [[Los Angeles|Los Angeles, CA]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hawgood|first=Alex|date=2021-09-18|title=A Multifaceted Designer Gets a New Platform|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/18/style/emmanuel-olunkwa-pin-up-magazine.html|access-date=2021-09-20|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> He graduated with a B.A. in Liberal Arts from the [[Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts|Eugene Lang College]] at the [[The New School|New School]] with a concentration in Race, Art History, and Architectural Spatiality. In 2021, he graduated with an M.S. in the Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices program from [[Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation|Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation]], and for his graduate thesis he dissected the spatiality of “[[Slave Play]],” the Tony-nominated production by [[Jeremy O. Harris]] about [[racism]] and [[Kink (sexuality)|sexual kinks]]. <ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-03-24|title=Emmanuel Olunkwa|url=https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/emmanuel-olunkwa|access-date=2021-09-14|website=Interview Magazine|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-03-05|title=This Artist Found His Voice By Digging Past The Surface|url=https://uproxx.com/life/new-school-art-fashion/|access-date=2021-09-14|website=UPROXX|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Nast|first=Condé|date=2021-06-11|title=Emmanuel Olunkwa Designs Functional Furniture With His Intuition|url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/emmanuel-olunkwa-furniture-interview|access-date=2021-09-14|website=Architectural Digest|language=en-US}}</ref>
Olunkwa was born and raised in [[Los Angeles|Los Angeles, CA]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hawgood|first=Alex|date=2021-09-18|title=A Multifaceted Designer Gets a New Platform|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/18/style/emmanuel-olunkwa-pin-up-magazine.html|access-date=2021-09-20|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> He graduated with a B.A. in Liberal Arts from the [[Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts|Eugene Lang College]] at the [[The New School|New School]] with a concentration in Race, Art History, and Architectural Spatiality. In 2021, he graduated with an M.S. in the Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices program from [[Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation|Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation]], and for his graduate thesis he dissected the spatiality of “[[Slave Play]],” the Tony-nominated production by [[Jeremy O. Harris]] about [[racism]] and [[Kink (sexuality)|sexual kinks]]. <ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-03-24|title=Emmanuel Olunkwa|url=https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/emmanuel-olunkwa|access-date=2021-09-14|website=Interview Magazine|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-03-05|title=This Artist Found His Voice By Digging Past The Surface|url=https://uproxx.com/life/new-school-art-fashion/|access-date=2021-09-14|website=UPROXX|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Nast|first=Condé|date=2021-06-11|title=Emmanuel Olunkwa Designs Functional Furniture With His Intuition|url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/emmanuel-olunkwa-furniture-interview|access-date=2021-09-14|website=Architectural Digest|language=en-US}}</ref>


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Revision as of 20:05, 1 October 2021

Emmanuel Olunkwa
Born (1994-03-01) March 1, 1994 (age 30)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Websiteolunkwa.studio

Emmanuel Olunkwa (born 1994, Los Angeles, CA) is an artist, writer, editor, and filmmaker.[1][2][3][4] Olunkwa currently serves as the editor of Pin-Up Magazine.[5] In 2020, Olunkwa co-founded November Magazine and served as an editor of The Broadcast, a virtual publication by Pioneer Works gallery.[6] Olunkwa's work has been published in Artforum, Interview, Architectural Digest, The New York Times, Museum of Modern Art, Remodelista, and the New Museum and he is based in New York.[7]

Early life and education

Olunkwa was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA.[8] He graduated with a B.A. in Liberal Arts from the Eugene Lang College at the New School with a concentration in Race, Art History, and Architectural Spatiality. In 2021, he graduated with an M.S. in the Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices program from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, and for his graduate thesis he dissected the spatiality of “Slave Play,” the Tony-nominated production by Jeremy O. Harris about racism and sexual kinks. [9][10][11]

Work

Olunkwa has written features on artists Kara Walker, David Wojnarowicz, Seth Price, John Akomfrah, and Deana Lawson, architects Elizabeth Diller and Mark Wigley, and authors Natasha Stagg, Sarah Schulman, and Andrea Long Chu, amongst others.[12] His photography has been included in Dazed, Garage, Cultured, and e-flux.[13][14]

In 2020, Olunkwa started E&Ko., a functional furniture line of birch plywood chairs and tables.[15][16] The flower-shaped design works have been shown with artists Walter Price, Michael Krebber, Paul Chan, Wade Guyton, and Rachel Harrison.[17] He will be showcasing a new capsule collection of design work for SSENSE in fall of 2021.[18]

In the summer of 2020, Olunkwa started November Magazine, a non-profit dedicated to publishing and programming around contemporary art and culture.[6] The magazine was founded alongside Lauren O'Neill-Butler, and includes Dawn Chan, Aria Dean, and Alec Mapes-Frances as its editors.[19]

In September of 2021, Olunkwa was named editor of Pin-Up Magazine, a bi-annual magazine dedicated to architectural entertainment, becoming its second editor ever succeeding its founder, Felix Burrichter.[20]

References

  1. ^ "Emmanuel Olunkwa". The Poetry Project. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
  2. ^ Nast, Condé (2021-06-11). "Emmanuel Olunkwa Designs Functional Furniture With His Intuition". Architectural Digest. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
  3. ^ "Emmanuel Olunkwa". Interview Magazine. 2016-03-24. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
  4. ^ Hawgood, Alex (2021-09-18). "A Multifaceted Designer Gets a New Platform". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-20.
  5. ^ "pioneer works olunkwa - Google Search". www.google.com. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
  6. ^ a b "About - November". About - November. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
  7. ^ Hawgood, Alex (2021-09-18). "A Multifaceted Designer Gets a New Platform". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-20.
  8. ^ Hawgood, Alex (2021-09-18). "A Multifaceted Designer Gets a New Platform". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-20.
  9. ^ "Emmanuel Olunkwa". Interview Magazine. 2016-03-24. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
  10. ^ "This Artist Found His Voice By Digging Past The Surface". UPROXX. 2018-03-05. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
  11. ^ Nast, Condé (2021-06-11). "Emmanuel Olunkwa Designs Functional Furniture With His Intuition". Architectural Digest. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
  12. ^ "November". www.novembermag.com. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
  13. ^ "Natasha Stagg is Ready". Cultured Magazine. 2019-12-27. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
  14. ^ "Aria Dean: Production for a Circle / Hannah Weinberger: we didn't want to leave / Giovanni Cioni: Short films - Announcements - e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
  15. ^ Nast, Condé (2021-06-11). "Emmanuel Olunkwa Designs Functional Furniture With His Intuition". Architectural Digest. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
  16. ^ "A Designer on the Up: Emmanuel Olunkwa, at Home in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn". Remodelista. 2021-05-24. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
  17. ^ Nast, Condé (2021-06-11). "Emmanuel Olunkwa Designs Functional Furniture With His Intuition". Architectural Digest. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
  18. ^ Hawgood, Alex (2021-09-18). "A Multifaceted Designer Gets a New Platform". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-20.
  19. ^ "About - November". About - November. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
  20. ^ Hawgood, Alex (2021-09-18). "A Multifaceted Designer Gets a New Platform". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-20.
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