Brandon Ndife
(b. 1991)Brandon Ndife’s works merge interior and exterior worlds, often breaking open hand-built domestic objects to reveal an undergrowth of organic forms.
Biography
Ndife was born in Hammond, Indiana, to Nigerian and Barbadian parents. His interest in the arts began at a young age, sparked while attending a high school for the arts and developed during his undergraduate education at the Cooper Union.
At the Cooper Union in 2012, Ndife witnessed the upheaval and destruction brought by Hurricane Sandy to New York. The pervasive sight of discarded furniture left to the elements of natural disaster shifted Ndife‘s artistic focus, bringing themes of domesticity, commodification, decay, and environmental crisis to the forefront of his work.
Ndife sees himself as creating work that sits in conversation with a wide range of practitioners, citing writers Octavia Butler and Audre Lorde, filmmaker David Cronenberg, and artist David Hammons as key influences. Throughout his sculptures, paintings, and drawings, each piece is purposefully devoid of the human figure without being devoid of humanity. Ndife builds objects that share an uncanny resemblance to found second-hand furnishings and organic matter such as fruit, tree branches, and soil.
Following his undergraduate education, Ndife earned an MFA from Bard College (2020). He has been featured in exhibitions at Casa di Goethe (2024), Wesleyan University's Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery (2022), and Storm King Art Center (2022). The Studio Museum in Harlem acquired Ndife’s work in 2023.
Brandon Ndife
(b. 1991)Brandon Ndife’s works merge interior and exterior worlds, often breaking open hand-built domestic objects to reveal an undergrowth of organic forms.
A Master's Tools, 2022
Biography
Ndife was born in Hammond, Indiana, to Nigerian and Barbadian parents. His interest in the arts began at a young age, sparked while attending a high school for the arts and developed during his undergraduate education at the Cooper Union.
At the Cooper Union in 2012, Ndife witnessed the upheaval and destruction brought by Hurricane Sandy to New York. The pervasive sight of discarded furniture left to the elements of natural disaster shifted Ndife‘s artistic focus, bringing themes of domesticity, commodification, decay, and environmental crisis to the forefront of his work.
Ndife sees himself as creating work that sits in conversation with a wide range of practitioners, citing writers Octavia Butler and Audre Lorde, filmmaker David Cronenberg, and artist David Hammons as key influences. Throughout his sculptures, paintings, and drawings, each piece is purposefully devoid of the human figure without being devoid of humanity. Ndife builds objects that share an uncanny resemblance to found second-hand furnishings and organic matter such as fruit, tree branches, and soil.
Following his undergraduate education, Ndife earned an MFA from Bard College (2020). He has been featured in exhibitions at Casa di Goethe (2024), Wesleyan University's Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery (2022), and Storm King Art Center (2022). The Studio Museum in Harlem acquired Ndife’s work in 2023.