Through poetry, sculpture, and installation, artist Precious Okoyomon frames childhood toys and non-human life as mirrors to better understand the human condition.
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“There’s no separation between the poetry and the sculptures.”
Through poetry, sculpture, and installation, artist Precious Okoyomon frames childhood toys and non-human life as mirrors to better understand the human condition. Watch "Precious Okoyomon's Creative Destruction" for free on Art21.org and YouTube.
Open this video on Art21In this artist’s studio, there’s a little smell of death in the air.
Art21’s most recent film joins artist Precious Okoyomon in their Brooklyn studio as they work on an installation for the 2026 Whitney Biennial composed of 55 figures sewn together from stuffed animals and taxidermied bird wings. Watch "Precious Okoyomon's C...
Open this video on Art21Artist builds a garden of time. #PreciousOkoyomon
Precious Okoyomon’s penchant for botanical installations comes from their grandmother, a seed-saver who taught the artist how to tend to gardens and introduced them to a practice of care, place-making, and archiving. “I make these spaces with my garden spec...
Open this video on Art21Precious Okoyomon deconstructs our world to build something new | Art21
This documentary short follows the artist’s unique creative trajectory from childhood experiences gardening with their grandmother and collecting stuffed toys to exhibiting immersive botanical installations and stuffed bear sculptures at celebrated arts ins...
Open this video on Art21Could you direct yourself?
Sin Wai Kin hates being told what to do. “I hate being told what to do, so I wouldn't let anybody direct me. [laughs]” Our latest episode, “Human Nature,” takes viewers behind the scenes as Sin Wai Kin (@sinforvictory) creates performance, video, text, and ...
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Open this video on Art21Sleep is for the weak. #JoshKline #Art21Season12
“The body of work that I was making between 2009 and 2014 about creative labor, it was influenced by what I saw going on with my friends– like, no boundaries between your private and your professional life. With your boss feeling entitled to contact you at ...
Open this video on Art21Sin Wai Kin: "Storytelling creates realities." | Art21
Art21 proudly presents an artist segment featuring Sin Wai Kin from the "Human Nature" episode in the twelfth season of the Art in the Twenty-First Century series. "Human Nature" premiered in June 2026 on PBS. Sin Wai Kin was born in 1991 in Toronto, Canada...
Open this video on Art21Artist makes a boy band. #SinWaiKin #Art21Season12
“Boy bands are this perfect representation of how identity is constructed and consumed within capitalism. Each member is usually hyper-individualized, but really, they can't exist on their own. Together, they form a whole person.” Drawing on varied historie...
Open this video on Art21Can anxiety be an artistic medium?
During her self-directed artist residency program, Lenka Clayton created works that invite viewers into the intimate rhythms of everyday life as a parent. Watch the full film for free on YouTube.
Open this video on Art21A contagion in the middle class.
“I made a series of life-sized portraits. Each one is a portrait of a real unemployed person who had worked in fields predicted to be eliminated by AI and automation.” In our latest episode, artist Josh Kline investigates worsening labor conditions that cha...
Open this video on Art21Lenka Clayton and the beauty of the everyday | Art21
Art21 proudly presents an artist segment featuring Lenka Clayton from the "Human Nature" episode in the twelfth season of the Art in the Twenty-First Century series. "Human Nature" premiered in June 2026 on PBS. Lenka Clayton was born in 1977 in Cornwall, E...
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