Emmanuel Olunkwa (b. 1994; Los Angeles) is an artist, editor, writer, and filmmaker based in New York. His work brings deep study and surprising connection across culture, fashion, urban landscape, and social ecology. He is the editor of PIN–UP Magazine.
He is cofounder of the nonprofit November Magazine.
He has given lectures, been a visiting critic, and participated on panels at Harvard, Columbia, MIT, Yale, and Princeton.
Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture
M.S. — Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices
The New School’s Eugene Lang College
B.A. — Race Studies, Art History, and Architectural Spatiality
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Selected
- PIN-UP Interview: Rem Koolhaas
- PIN-UP Interview: Carsten Höller
- Interview: Aria Dean
- Interview: Gus Van Sant
- PIN-UP: Women of New York
- PIN-UP Interview: Jonathan Muecke
- PIN-UP Interview: Thelma Golden
- Essay: Wordplay
- Interview: Dan Graham
- PIN-UP Interview: Wolfgang Tillmans
- Interview: Lena Dunham
- How Long Gone
- Popeye Magazine
- PIN-UP Interview: David Salle
- PIN-UP Interview: Mabel O. Wilson
- Blackbird Spyplane Interview
- i-D, Interview: Hamza Walker
- Maharam + Artek
- PIN-UP Interview: Gaetano Pesce
- Interview: Hito Steyerl
- Curbed, 21 Questions
- T Magazine
- New York Times
- Interview: Elizabeth Diller
- TheGuide.art, Social Works
- Cultured: Young Curators 2021
- TheGuide.art, Hardy Hill
- Architectural Digest
- Thesis: Notes on Slave Play
- Interview: Andrea Long Chu
- Remodelista, A Designer on the Up
- The Radio Show
- Interview: John Akomfrah
- Floyd Home Interview
- November
- Deana Lawson
- The Object Talk: Seth Price
- Kara Walker: Words as Images
- Interview: Mark Wigley
- David Wojnarowicz: A Story of Time
- Bottega Veneta's Elements Of Style, feat. Aria Dean