Meet Toronto artist, EsmaaMohamoud, whose practice combines sports, fashion and racial issues.
has seduced museums and art critics alike since graduating from the Ontario College of Art and Design’s fine-arts program in 2016. In 2021, she was on the prestigious Sobey Art Award long list, and she recently joined the select group of artists represented by Chicago’s Kavi Gupta Gallery—plus, she’s only 29 years old. She’s exhibiting at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York throughout August, and her first solo museum exhibition is touring across Canada over the summer.
The striking set of photos of her wearable sculptures invites us to consider the ways in which professional sport shapes certain discourses around femininity and masculinity. She questions the heteronormative pressure exerted on athletic bodies, especially racialized bodies. What is acceptable femininity in sport? What are the consequences of the kind of hypermasculinity displayed in contact sports?The celebration of and care for Black culture is at the heart of Mohamoud’s creative approach.
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