About me
About the Artist
Zekarias Musele Thompson (b. 1983, Washington D.C.) is an Oakland- and Reykjavik-based artist working in sonic composition, mark-making, performance, photography, collaborative practices, and writing. Thompson’s work explores humanity’s conceptual and emotional organizational structures and how these forms are made material. Thompson has presented solo exhibitions at the Museum of the African Diaspora, The Lab, Gray Area, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, and Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Group exhibitions and performances include Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, CCA Wattis Institute, Hamraborg Festival, Ásmundasalur, and Open in Reykjavik, Iceland. Thompson has collaborated with artists including Oysterknife, Salimatu Amabebe, Zack Parrinella, Pétur Eggertson, Phillip Laurent, Lonnie Holley, and many others. He is the instigator of the Togetherness Ensemble and co-founder of Working Name Studios, a collectively organized arts institution supporting underrepresented practices. Thompson was a 2024 Emerging Artist Program cohort member at MoAD and holds an MFA in Art Practice from UC Berkeley.
