Roberts Projects is pleased to announce its representation of Esmaa Mohamoud. This announcement follows the gallery’s first solo exhibition with the artist in 2025, What Does Webster’s Say About Soul?

Known for her conceptual practice that incorporates familiar objects and symbols from Black visual culture—including football equipment, peacock chairs, lowriders, butterflies and shea butter—Mohamoud reimagines her source materials by transforming their scale and layering cultural references to recontextualize their conventional meaning. Grounded in extensive research and painstaking production, her work displays not only a mastery of a given material, but also a nuanced understanding of its symbolic power. By investigating Black history through its material culture, Mohamoud bypasses monolithic racial stereotypes to envision a world rich with complexity and diverse experiences.

Through her critique of Black body politics, Mohamoud considers how subjects are made to navigate spaces where they have already been objectified and racialized. In creating work that demystifies these unspoken social codes, Mohamoud simultaneously celebrates and reconfigures a visual language rooted in time-honored traditions of resistance and resilience.

Esmaa Mohamoud (b. 1992 London, ON, Canada; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) is a conceptual artist working at the intersection of sculpture and installation. Her sculptures explore the politics of race and identity through references to and recontextualizing of objects from popular culture. Making use of materials that carry both personal and historical significance, Mohamoud creates symbolically rich and metaphorically complex works that consider the legacy of racial violence and the possibilities for future renewal.

photo: Jeremy Clemente