The paintings in the exhibition form a landscape, quilted from fleeting moments, based on the artist's memories and relationship to a familiarizing place. This is Zekarias Musele Thompson’s first solo exhibition in Iceland.

As part of the exhibition, Zekarias will perform duets with a selection of artists they admire, throughout the exhibition period. A performance program will be announced on the opening day. 

𝘐 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 
𝘐 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 
𝘐 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 
- 𝘎𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘨 𝘎𝘶ð𝘯𝘪 

Zekarias Musele Thompson (b. 1983, they/them/their) is an artist based in Oakland, CA, and Reykjavik, IS, often working in sonic composition, mark-making, photography, collaborative group practice & performance, and writing. Their practice is concerned with humanity’s conceptual and emotional organizational structures—and how we bring them into material form. 

Zekarias has presented solo exhibitions and projects at the Museum of the African Diaspora, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, The Lab, Gray Area, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, and the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies. 

Zekarias is a co-founder of Working Name Studios, a collectively owned and organized arts institution with the mission of building institutional stability and equity for underrepresented creative practices, ideas, and people. They were part of the Emerging Artist Program at the MoAD for 2024, and are recent MFA graduates from the Department of Art Practice at UC Berkeley.