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Inye Wokoma
Inye Wokoma is a visual artist, journalist and filmmaker. His family has lived in Seattle’s Central District since the 1940s where he continues to live, work and make art. His work mines the history of this place to uncover the ways history, land, politics and power shape our personal and collective narratives. By rooting his work in the immediacy of place and social experience, he wrestles ideas like the relationships between personal and collective identities, free will and imposed power structures, and identity as a political experience that is simultaneously fixed and fluid. Inye received his B.A. in Mass Communications-Journalism and Film Studies from Clark Atlanta University in 1996. Since then he has worked consistently as a photographer and filmmaker while maintaining an evolving personal art practice. He received a 2002 Editorial Photography Award and a 2006 Photo Essay Award from the Society of Professional Journalists Western Washington, a 2004 National Council on Crime and Delinquency PASS Award for criminal justice reportage, a 2012 Telly Award for his film ‘Lost and (Puget) Sound’, a 2019 Americans For the Arts Public Art Year In Review Award as a part of the groups show ‘Borderlands’ and a 2019 Neddy Award Winner in the Open Medium category. As a Fall 2020 Amazon Air Artist In Residence, he is working on new resin based collage works in their Expressions Studio in Downtown Seattle. Education .Browse all performers