Esmaa Mohamoud (b. 1992 London, ON, Canada; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) is a conceptual artist working at the intersection of sculpture and installation. Her sculptures explore the politics of race and identity through references to and recontextualizing of objects from popular culture. Making use of materials that carry both personal and historical significance, Mohamoud creates symbolically rich and metaphorically complex works that consider the legacy of racial violence and the possibilities for future renewal.

Solo exhibitions include What Does Webster’s Say About Soul?, Roberts Projects, Los Angeles (2025); Complex Dreams, the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, MI (2024); Let Them Consume Me In The Light, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL (2023); It Cannot Always Be Night, Arsenal New York, NY (2022) and Esmaa Mohamoud: To Play in the Face of Certain Defeat (2019-2022), Museum London, Ontario, Canada, travelled to Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ottawa Art Gallery, Winnipeg  Art Gallery and Art Gallery of Alberta, Canada.

Group exhibitions include Sports Culture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (2024), travelling to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR and Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL; Resistance Training, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum (2023) and In These Truths, Albright-Knox, Buffalo, NY (2022).

Mohamoud’s work is featured in numerous public collections, including the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario; the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; the Brooklyn Museum; the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum; the Legacy Museum, Montgomery, AL; the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Quebec, Canada; Museum London, Ontario; the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC and the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, Canada, among others.