Kudi — CV
Born 1993, London, UK
Psychology Bsc and MA in Social and Cognitive Psychology with a Major in Social Design, with 3+ years of experience in architecture and technology design (Foster and Partner, Allies and Morrision, Bloomberg and British Land) facilitating and managing infrastructure and design teams.
Artist’s Statement
My work is focused around the fine arts, while looking into the anthropomorphization of the natural world as a visceral lens for exploring the human condition, crafting metaphors for human existence and past experience. My work questions the stasis of social dynamics and asks the viewer to examine their place within an ever-shifting ecosystem. I aim to communicate visual ideas through sculpture.
Ultimately the aim of my work, is to make my audience understand the association between the designed object and our psychological perception of social classes and racial structures that these objects pertain to. With the progression of starting my dialogue with the smaller objects then naturally scaling up that conversation to larger infrastructural objects of design.
Education
2016
MA, Psychology
Department of Social Psychology
University of College London
2013
Bsc, Psychology
Department of Psychology
University of Metropolitan London
Professional Appointments
2019 - 2020 Allies and Morrision, Lead Project Director (Lake Shore Boulevard Toronto) London, United Kingdom
2018 - 2019 Foster and Partner, Lead Project Director (BPS, Colechurch House) London, United Kingdom
2017– 2018 BBC, Lead Project Manager Technology Design, London, United Kingdom
2016– 2017 Bloomberg, Lead Project Manager Design, London, United Kingdom
Grants and Awards
2019, BPS - Infrastructure Project at Evcom Clarion Awards,
Notable Collections
Vices of Blackness, 2020
Blue Collar, White Collar, 2020
Concursuros, 2020
Blood on the Leaves, 2020
Social Dynamics 2019
Selected Press
Aesthetica Magazine: - “ Kudi Structures of Design “
Writer:- Eleanor Sutherland
2020
Cultured:-“ In Conversation With Kudi”