Josèfa Ntjam

Josèfa Ntjam is an artist, performer, and writer whose practice combines sculpture, photomontage, film, and sound. Collecting the raw material for her work from the internet, books on natural sciences, and photographic archives, Ntjam uses assemblage—of images, words, sounds, and stories—as a method to deconstruct the grand narratives underlying hegemonic discourses on origin, identity, and race. In 2025, Ntjam participated in the thirty-sixth São Paulo Art Biennial and the MOMENTA Biennale d’art contemporain, Montreal, and her largest exhibition to date, INTRICATIONS, was presented at the IAC Villeurbanne. Ntjam has been nominated as a finalist for the 2026 Marcel Duchamp Prize, which will lead to an exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris in October, organized in collaboration with Centre Pompidou, Paris. Solo exhibitions include swell of spæc(i)es, the official collateral event of the sixtieth Venice Biennale, commissioned by LAS Art Foundation (2024); Une cosmogonie des océans, LVMH Métiers d’Art, Paris (2024); Futuristic Ancestry, Fotografiska, New York, Berlin, Stockholm, and Tallinn (2024–2026); and Matter Gone Wild, Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris (2023–2024), among others.