Proud and extremely grateful to announce our July BXposed Artist Kumo Shai!

His ongoing body of work, All The Talent Is In The Hood, reflects a sustained engagement with the neighborhoods and communities that have shaped his life. Rather than arriving with predetermined conclusions, Shai uses photography to create space for encounters that reveal new truths and cultural richness found within everyday life.

Shamel Ridley artistically known as Kumo Shai (b. 1992, Bronx, New York) is a multidisciplinary artist and photographer whose practice moves between documentary photography and portraiture. Working with both analog and digital processes, he creates images that explore place, memory and the relationships between people and their environments. His photographs often blur the line between observation and collaboration, inviting viewers to reconsider the familiar through moments of symbolism, and quiet presence.

Shai is the recepient of a BRIO (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) award from the Bronx Council on the Arts. His work has been exhibited in New York and featured in Interview Magazine and Highsnobiety. He lives and works in New York City.

We welcome you to join us for the opening reception on Monday, July 20th from 6-8PM at the Andrew Freedman Home.

The BXposed Artist series is a monthly rotating exhibition that provides a platform for both emerging and established Bronx based artists to exhibit lens based art here in their own borough.