Ludovic Nkoth
For the Cameroon-born Ludovic Nkoth (b. 1994, Yaoundé, Cameroon), displacement and deferral hold familiar places within a practice full of storytelling. With swirled and meandering brushstrokes, Nkoth’s figurative painting explores transatlantic and cross-Mediterranean migration present and past against the backdrop of the artist’s own adolescent expatriation to the US. Melding Cameroonian aesthetic motifs and sumptuous coloration with postcolonial allegory, Nkoth explores the formation and fragmentation of identity. Throughout his work, figures participate in the fictions and lived experiences that comprise his own identity synthesis; each muddled expression and porous boundary imbues his paintings with the tender incandescence of a memory. The navigation of both belonging and outsiderhood in African and American spaces underscores much of Nkoth’s work, and informs the futures of solidarity and self-determination that are central to his practice.
Ludovic Nkoth lives and works in New York City. Nkoth completed his BFA at the University of South Carolina, and holds an MFA in painting from Hunter College. Selected solo and group exhibitions include Maison La Roche, Paris, France; FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA; François Ghebaly, Los Angeles, USA; Simões de Assis, São Paulo, Brazil; Pond Society, Shanghai, China; Massimo de Carlo, London, UK; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, USA; Ross + Kramer, New York, USA; Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, USA; and Luce Gallery, Turin, Italy. Nkoth’s work is held in the collection of the Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China.
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What is life if not a game, 2024
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Love and pain, 2024
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Seated Woman, 2024
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High Notes, 2023
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System (Yellow) II, 2023
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A meditation upon the nothing, 2023
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How to surprise a mirror?, 2023
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White floors, 2023
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Plié, 2023
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A day’s weight, 2023
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Night Games, 2023
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Francophone/ Anglophone (school girls), 2023
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The moon whispered...I’m ready, 2023
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Wavelength, 2023
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Becoming, 2023
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Invented Truth, 2023
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System (Orange), 2023
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High Noon, 2023
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Ludovic Nkoth
The Is of It October 7 - November 11, 2023 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los AngelesFrançois Ghebaly is proud to present The Is of It, New York-based artist Ludovic Nkoth’s newest exhibition at the downtown Los Angeles gallery. “It’s with such a profound happiness. Such...Read more -
François Ghebaly x Rhinoceros Roma
Group exhibition June 9 - November 18, 2023 Rhinoceros Roma, Via del Velabro, 9, RomeFrançois Ghebaly and Rhinoceros Roma are pleased to announce an exhibition of works by Neïl Beloufa, Max Hooper Schneider, Em Rooney and Ludovic Nkoth opening at Rhinoceros Gallery’s space in...Read more -
Ludovic Nkoth
Don't Take This Too January 28 - February 27, 2021 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los AngelesFrançois Ghebaly is pleased to present Ludovic Nkoth’s Don’t Take This Too , the Cameroonian-born, New York-based painter’s first major solo exhibition. Don’t Take This Too introduces viewers to Nkoth’s...Read more
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Ludovic Nkoth Searches for Home and Harmony After a Year-Long Residency in Paris
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Ludovic Nkoth’s vibrant paintings reflect on migration
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Ludovic Nkoth shares his creative process behind this year’s Dior Lady Art project
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Ludovic Nkoth’s Fleeting Feelings of Home
Through his practice, Cameroon-born Ludovic Nkoth continuously grasps to connect threads of home as it remains a shape-shifting and ever-moving target.Sigourney Schultz, Hyperallergic, October 24, 2023 -
On View: A Painter Capturing Motion on Canvas
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At His Paris Residency, Art-World Wunderkind Ludovic Nkoth Is Transforming ‘Moments of Being’ Into Moving Figurative Portraits
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Ludovic Nkoth’s new exhibition takes you from Cameroon to Paris in search of ‘home’
Steven Vargas, The Los Angeles Times, October 4, 2023 -
Ludovic Nkoth and Moses Sumney on Faith, Fulfillment, and Finding Home
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Artist Ludovic Nkoth takes on Le Corbusier
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Star Artist Ludovic Nkoth Invites Us Into His Instrument-Filled Studio, Where Friends Gather—and He Spends Long Hermit-Like Hours
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Ludovic Nkoth's Nudes Might Surprise You
Elisha Tawe, Cultured, November 30, 2022 -
Ludovic Nkoth: A Dear Statement to the Soul
Charles Moore, Juxtapoz, January 1, 2021