Ashara Ekundayo Gallery (AEG) is an Online radical Black feminist arts & culture platform that exclusively showcases contemporary and new media works by Black womxn. From Dec 2017 - Dec 2019 it operated as physical space for ceremony, arts exhibition and events in the Uptown/KONO Arts District in Oakland, CA and now operates as a global pop-up venue and online collaboratorium with community venues, galleries and museums centering Black women’s creative labor.
Highlighting artistic production across a myriad of disciplines, AEG continues to specialize in displaying works and ideals that investigate and inspire social and spiritual inquiry at the intersection of fact x the womanist imaginary x Afrofuturism.
Reimagined by is namesake in 2017, Ashara Ekundayo Gallery was an offshoot of her successful creative arts practice venue Omi Gallery x Omi Arts which served as the foundational brand design and programming arm of Impact Hub Oakland, an award-winning member-based, co-working space and social innovation lab where she presided as the Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer from 2012 - 2018.
In addition to exhibition, AEG stewarded an Artist-In-Residence program and curated specialized programing including, the HushhhArt Salon & New Collector’s Circle, the GAZE Arts LGBTQI+ Makers Series, the Omi Arts Summer Studios Residency and the Church of Black Feminist Thought.
Ashara Ekundayo Gallery is a venture of AECreative.
