Monsieur Zohore
b. 1993
Monsieur Zohore (b. 1993, Potomac, MD) is an Ivorian-American artist whose practice is rooted in the politics of transfiguration. Working across performance, sculpture, painting, video, and installation, Zohore stages acts of consumption, cleaning, care, and domestic labor as complex rituals through which meaning is made, exhausted, and remade. Drawing from art history, queer theory, postcolonial thought, and popular culture, his work moves between devotional humor, sinister undertones, and bureaucratic horror, examining the personification of objects and the objectification of people—how bodies are rendered useful, disposable, or divine. Through the recurring use of humble and overlooked materials, including paper towels, municipal infrastructure, surplus ephemera, and quotidian objects, Zohore reveals how systems of power permeate the everyday. His installations and performances employ repetition, refusal, and ritual to foreground labor as both sacrament and critique, inviting audiences to consider intimacy, erasure, and transformation in a world where nothing is stable and everything is at stake.
Zohore received his MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2020 and his BFA from The Cooper Union in 2015. His work has been featured in numerous national and international exhibition, including Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen, Sperling, Munich, and KOW in Berlin; Asia Society Houston, TX; The Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; Sculpture Center, Socrates Sculpture Park, and Pace Gallery in New York; The Baker Museum, Naples, FL; the Kreeger Museum and Von Ammon CO., Washington, D.C., and The Columbus Museum of Art, OH, among others. Zohore was awarded residency programs with Fountainhead Arts in Miami, FL in 2025; Adhesivo in Mexico City, MX in 2024; and Numero Venti in Florence, IT in 2022. His work is in public collections such as the Walker Art Center, MI; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, D.C.; the Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; the Rubell Museum, FL; DANGXIA Art Space, Beijing, China; and, The Roux Collection, Panama City, PN. Zohore lives and works between New York, Richmond, and Abidjan.
