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• “Titanic, Remixed”, essay for Titanic and Fashion: The Last Dance exhibition catalog, curated by Madelief Hohé, 2025-26 DA_Publications_TitanicRemixed_JDH_NVestingInThePeople
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• Presentation + Conversation “Dive into Afrofuturity: D. Denenge Duyst-Akpem on Titanic, Remixed” Thursday, November 20, 2025 at 7 p.m. CET with Curator of Fashion Madelief Hohé, Programming by Tahnee Fraser, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Netherlands
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• Podcast with Cathelijne Blok “Titanic and Afrofuturism” from the opening night of Titanic and Fashion: The Last Dance, Friday, September 26, 2025 at Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Netherlands
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• Sun Snake and Moon Goddess/Chicago Commemorative Camo Coats exhibited as part of Titanic and Fashion: The Last Dance at Kunstmuseum Den Haag, the Netherlands,
• Limited Edition Objets d’Art available through Kunstmuseum shop
• + Visit my SHOP page for images and links to purchase!
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• Osanyin Cape from the Camo Coat Collection and Leaf Backdrop exhibited at SFO Museum, San Francisco, California as part of Women of Afrofuturism through September 2026
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• Creative in Residence, Jnane Tamsna, La Palmeraie, Marrakech, Morocco, 2024
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• Fellow, Laboratory for Planetary Arts, Center for Art, Design, and Social Research, Spoleto, Italy, 2024
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• CCv2: The Garden Collection 3Arts 3AP Campaign, 2024

“Shapeshifting the Visible/Invisible: Pattern and Protection in the Camo Coat Collection”, essay for Journal of Design History Special Edition on Design and the Occult, 2024 DA_Publications_TitanicRemixed_JDH_NVestingInThePeople

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• “Visible/Invisible: Protection and Healing in the Urban Landscape” ICOM International Conference, National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2023
• Museum of Fine Arts Boston acquires Hip-Hop Flounce Camo Coat for the mueseum’s permanent collection (2023)
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• AFRIFUTURI 02022020 Limited Edition Book Box acquired for the permanent collection of National Art Library, V&A Museum, London, 2023
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• The Original Camo Coat featured in Africa Fashion exhibition catalog, curated by Dr. Christine Checinska and Elisabeth Murray, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK, with presentation for Africa Fashion Conference, November 18-19, 2022 AfricaFashion_V&AMuseum_catalog_Denenge_CamoCoat_feature_Afro-FashionFutures_bycuratorChristineChecinska
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• La Becque Laureate, Artist Residency, 2022 (originally 2020), La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland
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• Watch “Denenge: Afrofuturity” presentation as part of “Terrestrial Space” for Claiming Space: A Symposium on Black Futures – Past, Present, and Future, Smithsonian Institution, January 27-29, 2022
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• “Visible/Invisible: Designing Afro.Futures”, Inaugural Speaker, Fall 2021 Equity and Justice Network Series, Center for Design & Material Culture, School of Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2021
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• Visiting Artist, Identity Series, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, 2021
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• .D. Denenge Duyst-Akpem appointed as 2020-21 Visiting Artist, Associate Professor at Kentucky College of Art and Design (KyCAD)
• Wellesley College, Department of Art lecture, “Visible/Invisible – The Camo Coat Collection.” April 22, 2021. 
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• Goethe Institut – Presentation for Panel – “Afro-Futurist Ecologies + Visible/Invisible – Camo Coat Collection.” April 19, 2021.
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• KyCAD Spring 2021 New Studio Course “Constructing Future Forms: Healing and Protection in Fashion and Design.” April 12-29, 2021
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• Botanical Speculations series featured speaker of the month on “In the Luscious Garden + Visible/Invisible – Camo Coat Collection.” April 6, 2021.
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• MIAD First Year Program Talk – “Visible/Invisible: Healing and Protection in the Urban Landscape”
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• “What Does the Afrofuture Say?” Interview with Ingrid LaFleur’s New Center: The Afrofuturist Strategies Institute
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• Contributor, Fleeting Monuments for the Black Arts Movement, ed. Romi Crawford – University of Minnesota Press, 2021. Print. Featuring Mnemonic Studies: Spaceship, Mnemonic Studies: Yam Mounds
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• [De]Mapping the future – Listening to the historic origin body –  Wellesley College – Presenting on the work of Nyugen E. Smith, “Visible/Invisible” and “Consecrating the Cosmos” -with Magdalena Moskalewicz, PhD, Valeria Ibraevaand moderator and host Zsuzsanna
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• KyCAD Spring 2021 Associate Professor, Visiting Artist Talk on “Visible/Invisible: Healing and Protection in the Urban Landscape.” March 29, 2021.
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• “Experimental 3D: Next Nature” with Marlena Novak – Class Lecture on “Building Afro-Futurist Narratives.” March 6, 2021.
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• Feb 22-March 30: KyCAD Spring 2021 New Art History Course “Visible/Invisible: Design, Architecture and Fashion in Africa and the Diaspora”
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• Afrofuturity Class Session SAIC Spring 2021 on “Afro-Futurist Ecologies” feat. Camo Coat Collection + AFRIFUTURI 02022020 Monograph
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• Do312 Campaign for Winter 2021 Camo Coat Mask Collection
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• Winter 2021 Camo Coat Mask Collection Launch
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• Red Bull Arts Feature in Newcity magazine, Holographic High Priestess full-page image. Print and web.
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• .AFRIFUTURI 02022020 Limited Edition Book Box acquired for the permanent collection of Joan M. Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Chicago, 2020
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• Chicago Fashion Lyceum presents the inaugural Fashion at the Periphery Conference and Festival October 4-11, 2020
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• AFRIFUTURI 02022020 featured in Kavi Gupta Editions Black Voices Initiative 
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• “Visible/Invisible: Protection in the Urban Landscape”, Paper for Costume Colloquium VII: Fashion and Dress in Place and Space, Florence, Italy (now virtual), Session VI, 2020
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• V&A Exhibition Workshop Presentation on the Camo Coat Collection with curators for the upcoming African Fashion exhibition
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• Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, magazine spread of the Camo Coat Collection and written text from AFRIFUTURI 02022020 feat. “Visible/Invisible: Healing and Protection in the Urban Landscape” ANTENNAE ISSUE 52_Denenge_excerpt
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• Costume Colloquium VII: Fashion and Costume in Time and Space Conference – Florence, Italy – Panel feat. “Visible/Invisible: Healing and Protection in the Urban Landscape”
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• Center for Afrofuturist Studies / P.S. One Exhibition Benefit, Iowa City, IA, feat. Holographic High Priestess
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• Camo Coat Collection + AFRIFUTURI 02022020 Runway + Book Launch – Official Full Extended Version
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• ART@COVID.EDU: Studio Art MFAs and the Cost of Remote Learning with Dana DeGiulio for CUE Foundation on Art, Career, post-MFA life
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• Brave New Mesh Exhibition, Veracruz, Mexico feat. Holographic High Priestess
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• Virtual Burning Man Exhibition, AfroFutures Shrine (incl. Angel Bat Dawid and others) feat. Holographic High Priestess
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• Michigan Avenue Fashion Windows Exhibition of Osanyin Portraits + Camo Coat Collection -Columbia College Chicago – February 11 – March 2, 2020
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• American Everyday Conference, hosted by Columbia College Chicago and Parsons Department of Fashion – Lecture for Panel – “Visible/Invisible: Healing and Protection in the Urban Landscape”
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• College Art Association (CAA) – Lecture for Panel – “Visible/Invisible: Healing and Protection in the Urban Landscape”
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• The Camo Coat Collection Runway + AFRIFUTURI 02022020 Book Launch – Hosted at Blanc Gallery, Bronzeville, Chicago – February 2, 2020 at 2:20 p.m. CST 
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• “AFRIFUTURI 02022020 hologram-enhanced monograph, published and launched February 2, 2020”
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• “Constructing Future Forms: Body, Garment, and Adornment in Afro-Futurism.” Essay for magalog. Connecting Afro Futures. Fashion x Hair x Design exhibition, co-curated by Cornelia Lund. Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin. 2019. Denenge_ConnectingAfroFutures_FashionxHairxDesign_KunstgewerbemuseumBerlin_2019_exhibitionmagalog_excerpt
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• “N’Vest-ing in the People: The Art of Jae Jarrell.” Essay for catalogue via Kavi Gupta Gallery for AFRICOBRA: Nation Time. 58th Venice Biennale. Venice, Italy. May 11-November 24, 2019.
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• “Sister Moon: A Lunar Poetic in X Stanzas.” Essay for Fly Me to the Moon exhibition catalogue. 50^th anniversary of moon landing. Curated by Cathérine Hug. Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland. 2019.
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• Take Root Among the Stars: Octavia Butler Parable of the Sower Exhibition – Fall 2018 – Presentation from Opening Night at Neiman Center and Flaxman Library Exhibition
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• Riding Interstellar Waves: A Performance Essay on Afro-Futurism and Time Travel.” Essay for Sixty Inches From Center. October 25, 2018. Web.
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• Cooper Cafritz, Peggy. Fired Up! Ready to Go!: Finding Beauty, Demanding Equity: An African American Life in Art. The Collections of Peggy Cooper Cafritz. New York: Rizzoli Electa, 2018. Full color. Print. Voted #1 by Culture Type of 18 Best Black Art Books of 2018.
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• Theaster Gates: How to Build a House Museum. Exhibition publication. Art Gallery of Ontario, 2018. Work featured: invitational writing and work on paper from 2017 exhibition. Full color. Print. Voted #2 by Culture Type of 18 Best Black Art Books of 2018.
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• “Pedagogy. Place. Liberation.” Place Lab Salon Sessions. Essay on Ethical Redevelopment Principle #3: Pedagogical Moments. January 26, 2017. Web. Rebuild Foundation and Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago. June 22, 2017. Print.
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• “Constructing Future Forms: Afro-Futurism and Fashion, Park Two.” Feature article. Chicago Art Magazine, February 8, 2012.
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• “Constructing Future Forms: Afro-Futurism and Fashion, Part One.” Feature article. Chicago Art Magazine, February 1, 2012
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• Tate, Greg, and LaTasha Diggs, eds. COO(n+) BIDNESS/SO4, Image of Super Space Riff. Premier issue. 2011. Print.
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• “Are You Ready to Alter Your Destiny? Chicago and Afro-Futurism, Part Two.” Chicago Art Magazine. July 8, 2011. Web.
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• “Are You Ready to Alter Your Destiny? Chicago and Afro-Futurism, Part One.” Chicago Art Magazine. July 2, 2011. Web.
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• “Burning Bridges and Dream States.” Studio Chicago Blog. 2011.

SELECTED PRESS

• The Original Camo Coat featured in Africa Fashion exhibition catalog, curated by Dr. Christine Checinska and Elisabeth Murray, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK, 2022. Print.
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• Ali, Hiba. “New Age, New Age: Strategies of Survival.” Review with image. The Seen. August 1, 2019. Web. Print.
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• “Everyday Genius”, highlighted by Patrice Perkins, Esq. of Creative Genius Law, @creativegeniuslaw, January 28, 2019. Web.
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• Shawaf, Noor. “Locating Your Practice in ‘African American Designers in Chicago: Art, Commerce and the Politics of Race,’ with D. Denenge Duyst-Akpem.” Sixty. January 3, 2019. Web.
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• Rockett, Darcel. “Octavia Butler exhibit pushes students to showcase their visionary muscles.” Chicago Tribune. December 12, 2018. Web. Print.
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• Ridell, Sam. Featured interviewee for Afro-Futurism video series. Inverse NY. March 2018. Web.
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• Greig, Sabrina. “Chicago Artists+Archives Project: An Interview with D. Denenge Duyst-Akpem.” Sixty. February 2018. Web.
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• “The Daily Fool: Q&A with Auction Artist D. Denenge Duyst-Akpem” feature interview for annual benefit gala and exhibition, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC. March 18, 2017. Web.
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• “Sculpting Space as Methodology of Liberation: An Interview with D. Denenge Akpem.” Florence Okoye of Afrofutures UK, Afrofuturism series for How We Get To Next. January 30, 2016. Web.
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• Nwangwa, Shirley. “‘One State to Another’: Performance in Harlem Delves into Masquerade Tradition at Carnival.” Review of Schomburg performance and conversation with Nyugen Smith. ARTNews. June 28, 2018. Web.
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• Anderson, Reynaldo. Listed in “Afrofuturism 2.0 and the Black Speculative Art Movement: Notes on a Manifesto.” Florence Okoye of Afrofutures UK, Afrofuturism series for How We Get To Next. January 2016. Web.
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• “Space is the Place: A Crash Course in the Sounds of Afro-Futurism.” Florence Okoye of Afrofutures UK, Afrofuturism series for How We Get To Next. January 2016. Web. 
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• “Black to the Future Series.” Interview with Tempestt Hazel. Sixty. 2012
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• “Womack, Ytasha. “What is Afro-Futurism?: An Interview with Artist/Educator D. Denenge Akpem.” Post Black: The Blog. 2010. Web.
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• Judson, Ben. “Self-Revolution.” Exhibition review of Weight of Words. Glasstire.com. October 2009. Web.
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• Chavis, Blair. “Feminist Art Examines Men.” Interview for Vaquera Serenade: Rise of La Cueruda Negra, part of Girl on Guy: The Object of My Desire, Chicago Public Radio, WBEZ, Fall 2007. Radio. Web.
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