Artist: Brandon Ndife

Holtermann Fine Art presents Brandon Ndife: Palimpsests, the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery and his London debut.

Brandon Ndife: Palimpsests features work made in 2024, including wall-based sculpture, freestanding structures and works on paper. The exhibition takes its title from the concept of a palimpsest - a surface layered with traces of previous marks or writings - an idea that resonates with Ndife’s ongoing exploration of history, transformation and overlay.

Born in 1991 in Hammond, Indiana, and now based in Brooklyn, Ndife alters familiar domestic objects into layered, poetic sculptures. Cast-off furniture and household stuffs are reworked with resin, wood, foam, cement and other materials resulting in works that exist between the sculptural and the painterly - the poetic state invoked by palimpsest.

An exhibition text by Jon Wood accompanies the show.

About Brandon Ndife

Brandon Ndife (b. 1991, Hammond, Indiana) lives and works in New York. His work is currently on view in A Garden of Promise and Dissent at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, and in Crosscurrents: Works from the Contemporary Collection at the Baltimore Museum of Art. A site-specific sculpture–commissioned by Lighthouse Works–is also on view at Fishers Island, New York (through December 2025).

Recent solo exhibitions include Greene Naftali, New York (2024); Matthew Brown Gallery, Los Angeles (2022); Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, New York (2022); Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut (2022); Bureau, New York (2020, 2019); Shoot the Lobster, New York (2018); and Interstate Projects, Brooklyn (2016). Notable group exhibitions include Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2023); Greene Naftali, New York (2023); Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium (2022); Soft Water Hard Stone, New Museum Triennial, New York (2021); and the Aspen Art Museum (2020). A graduate of The Cooper Union and Bard College MFA, Ndife has work in the permanent collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, and The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.