BRANDON NDIFE | 2026 Sam Gilliam Visiting Artist

Speed Art Museum, Louisville

Greene Naftali is thrilled to congratulate BRANDON NDIFE on being selected for the 2026 Sam Gilliam Visiting Artist Program.

Established in 2024, SGVAP honors the legacy of artist Sam Gilliam, who made civic engagement and education a fundamental part of his career and practice. Ndife is joined by fellow Visiting Artist Deana Lawson. During this residency, the artists will conduct research, engage local community members, and develop new work, including a series of exhibitions and public programs at the Museum.

Brandon Ndife’s sculptures fuse forms that resemble domestic objects with elements derived from the natural world. Through hand-building, painting, and casting in synthetic resin or polyurethane foam, Ndife creates meticulous replicas that keep the readymade tradition at a subtle remove. Expectant with ripening and rot, the works appear like relics unearthed from a distant past or envoys of a dystopian future. Ndife is drawn to domestic items, in part, for their capacity to index American life under capitalism—wrought with racial, class, and now ecological disparities in all that we touch. In his assemblages, wild growth seems poised to overtake the built environment, with all its structural exclusions.

To learn more, visit the Museum's website.