Lumin Wakoa (b. 1981, Ashland City, TN; d. 2025, New York, NY) received a BFA from the University of Florida in 2005, and an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 2010. Her work has been the subject of solo and two-person presentations at Harper’s, New York (2024 and 2022); Various Small Fires, Seoul and Los Angeles (2024 and 2023); Taymour Grahne, London (2023); Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland (2022); Deanna Evans Projects, Brooklyn (2021 and 2018); George Gallery, Brooklyn (2019); and Present Company, Brooklyn (2017). Most recently, Wakoa participated in group exhibitions at James Cohan Gallery, New York (2024); Almine Rech, online (2023); Harper’s, East Hampton and Los Angeles (2023, 2022, and 2021); Gaa Gallery, Provincetown (2022); Andrea Festa Fine Art, Rome (2022); Hesse Flatow, New York (2021); Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland (2021); and James Fuentes, online (2020). Reviews of her work appeared in Artnet, Brooklyn Rail, and Vogue, among other publications.
