-
Wole LagunjuIrawo, 2022Signed and Dated on FrontOil on Canvas73 1/2 x 53 1/2 in.
186.7 x 135.9 cm.Courtesy of Montague Contemporary -
Wole LagunjuIntrospection II, 2020Signed and date on frontInk drawing on paper24 x 18 inches
-
Miska MohmmedCorals, 2022Signed and DatedAcrylic on Canvas39 1/2 x 39 1/2 in.
100 x 100 cm. -
Miska MohmmedMara, 2022Signed and DatedAcrylic on Canvas23 1/2 x 59 in.
60 x 150 cm. -
Delano DunnNeon, 2018Gold leaf, masking tape, copper tape, vinyl, paper, shoe polish, glitter, and resin on board24 x 18 in. (61 x 45.7 cm)
-
Delano DunnEngines , 2018Gold leaf, masking tape, copper tape, vinyl, paper, shoe polish, glitter, and resin on board24 x 18 in. (61 x 45.7 cm)
-
Dina Nur SattiCrescent Lotus II, 2025Signed and DatedRed Sculpture Clay, Black Glaze26 x 8 in.
66 x 20.3 cm. -
Dina Nur SattiDoum Lotus I, 2025SignedRed Sculpture Clay20 x 9 in.
61 x 22.9 cm. -
Elias Mung'oraA portrait of Rhoda, 2024Signed and DatedMixed Media on Canvas39 1/2 x 39 1/2 in.
100 x 100 cm.
Montague Contemporary is pleased to announce Second Sight, a group exhibition of work by Delano Dunn, Miska Mohmmed, Dina Nur Satti, Elias Mung'ora, Birhane Worede, and Wole Lagunju, opening May 23, 2026, at N° 2 Main, the gallery's artist residency in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
The exhibition is installed not in a conventional gallery setting but throughout the rooms and walls of the residency itself—encountered in natural light, in intimate domestic spaces, in the way art is meant to be lived with. Taken together, the six artists' practices—spanning painting, ceramics, collage, and drawing—form a conversation about what it means to carry more than one world inside you, and what you see that others cannot.
The exhibition takes its premise from the writings of W.E.B. Du Bois, who was born in the neighboring town of Great Barrington, Massachusetts. In The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Du Bois described the condition of double consciousness—"this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others"—as both a burden and the source of a rare gift: second sight, the capacity to perceive what those who have never been othered cannot. He described himself as "a seventh son, born with a veil"—drawing on a tradition, shared across African, African American, and European cultures, in which those born at the threshold between worlds are marked for a particular kind of perception.
Second Sight does not treat Du Bois's framework as historical artifact. The six artists in this exhibition—working across ceramics, painting, collage, and drawing—carry his questions into the present: What does it mean to carry more than one world inside you? What do you see that others cannot?
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Delano Dunn (American, b. 1978, Los Angeles, CA) holds an MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts and a BFA in Illustration from Pratt Institute, New York. Working in multi-layered collage, painting, and mixed media, his practice explores questions of racial identity and perception, drawing from his experience growing up in South Central Los Angeles. His work is held in the collection of the Studio Museum in Harlem, commissioned by Peggy Cooper Cafritz. He has received the Sustainable Arts Foundation Individual Artist's Grant, the College Art Association Visual Arts Graduate Fellowship, and the Delaware Contemporary's Curator's Choice Award. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Le Monde, and Hyperallergic. He is a graduate and Board Member of the Wassaic Project.
Miska Mohmmed (Sudanese, b. 1995, Omdurman) received her BFA in Painting from the College of Fine Art, Sudan University, Khartoum, in 2016. Raised between Khartoum and Saudi Arabia, her large-scale semi-abstract acrylic paintings render the landscape of the Nile Delta as something felt rather than observed — geography carried in the body across distance and time. She has exhibited at Art Dubai, Art X Lagos, and the Investec Cape Town Art Fair, with solo exhibitions at OOA Gallery (Barcelona) and Montague Contemporary (New York). Her work is held in the Schulting Art Collection, the Arak Collection, and Africa First.
Dina Nur Satti (b. 1987, Chad; of Sudanese and Somali heritage) is a Brooklyn-based ceramic artist raised across France, Kenya, and the United States. Her practice is rooted in the pre-colonial ritual traditions of the African continent and the pottery lineage of the ancient Sudanese kingdom of Kush. Building her vessels through the ancient hand-coiling technique, her work enacts ancestral knowledge as living transmission. Named to Architectural Digest Middle East's AD100 in 2024 and 2025, she has exhibited at the Triennale di Milano, the Petrie Museum (London), and 1-54 Art Fair. Her work has entered the permanent collections of the Saint Louis Art Museum, the High Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum. She was the inaugural artist in residence at No. 2 Main.
Elias Mung'ora (Kenyan, b. 1992, Nyeri, Kenya) lives and works in Nairobi. A member of Brush Tu, a Nairobi-based artists' collective, his richly layered paintings explore the fragmented social and physical landscape of contemporary Nairobi — the traces of previous lives embedded in spaces that have been repurposed and reclaimed across generations. His work is held in the I&M Bank Collection, and has been promised to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the New Orleans Museum of Art, among other notable collections including the Rodney Miller Collection, Nicolas Jay Collection, and Sir John Rose Collection. He was the winner of the 2016 Manjano Art Prize and a finalist in the 2018 Barclays L'Atelier competition.
Birhane Worede (Ethiopian, b. 1998, Addis Ababa) grew up in Addis Ababa, inspired by the frantic energy of the world-famous Merkato, where he began sketching figures, ideas, and colours from an early age. He graduated with gold medal honors — the highest distinction — in Painting from the Alle School of Fine Art and Design, Addis Ababa University, in 2021. Working in oil on canvas, his gestural figurative practice moves fluidly between representation and abstraction, exploring the disconnection of figures absorbed in digital devices and the psychological voids they inhabit. His work has been exhibited at Urevbu Contemporary (Memphis), Chilli Art Projects (London), Circle Art Gallery (Nairobi), and Montague Contemporary (New York).
Wole Lagunju (Nigerian, b. 1966, Oshogbo) is a contemporary Yoruba artist associated with Onaism, a movement of the Ife Art School dedicated to reimagining the forms and philosophies of traditional Yoruba art and design. He graduated in Fine Arts and Graphic Design from the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) in 1986. He was awarded the Philip L. Ravenhill Fellowship by UCLA in 2006, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award in 2009, and the Northern Trust Prize in 2023. His work is held in the Denver Art Museum, the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Toledo Art Museum, the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, the World Bank, the Norval Foundation, the United States Art in Embassies Collection in Nigeria, and the Africa First Collection, among others. His work is currently on view at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and the Amistad Center, Hartford.
The exhibition is installed not in a conventional gallery setting but throughout the rooms and walls of the residency itself—encountered in natural light, in intimate domestic spaces, in the way art is meant to be lived with. Taken together, the six artists' practices—spanning painting, ceramics, collage, and drawing—form a conversation about what it means to carry more than one world inside you, and what you see that others cannot.
The exhibition takes its premise from the writings of W.E.B. Du Bois, who was born in the neighboring town of Great Barrington, Massachusetts. In The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Du Bois described the condition of double consciousness—"this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others"—as both a burden and the source of a rare gift: second sight, the capacity to perceive what those who have never been othered cannot. He described himself as "a seventh son, born with a veil"—drawing on a tradition, shared across African, African American, and European cultures, in which those born at the threshold between worlds are marked for a particular kind of perception.
Second Sight does not treat Du Bois's framework as historical artifact. The six artists in this exhibition—working across ceramics, painting, collage, and drawing—carry his questions into the present: What does it mean to carry more than one world inside you? What do you see that others cannot?
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Delano Dunn (American, b. 1978, Los Angeles, CA) holds an MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts and a BFA in Illustration from Pratt Institute, New York. Working in multi-layered collage, painting, and mixed media, his practice explores questions of racial identity and perception, drawing from his experience growing up in South Central Los Angeles. His work is held in the collection of the Studio Museum in Harlem, commissioned by Peggy Cooper Cafritz. He has received the Sustainable Arts Foundation Individual Artist's Grant, the College Art Association Visual Arts Graduate Fellowship, and the Delaware Contemporary's Curator's Choice Award. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Le Monde, and Hyperallergic. He is a graduate and Board Member of the Wassaic Project.
Miska Mohmmed (Sudanese, b. 1995, Omdurman) received her BFA in Painting from the College of Fine Art, Sudan University, Khartoum, in 2016. Raised between Khartoum and Saudi Arabia, her large-scale semi-abstract acrylic paintings render the landscape of the Nile Delta as something felt rather than observed — geography carried in the body across distance and time. She has exhibited at Art Dubai, Art X Lagos, and the Investec Cape Town Art Fair, with solo exhibitions at OOA Gallery (Barcelona) and Montague Contemporary (New York). Her work is held in the Schulting Art Collection, the Arak Collection, and Africa First.
Dina Nur Satti (b. 1987, Chad; of Sudanese and Somali heritage) is a Brooklyn-based ceramic artist raised across France, Kenya, and the United States. Her practice is rooted in the pre-colonial ritual traditions of the African continent and the pottery lineage of the ancient Sudanese kingdom of Kush. Building her vessels through the ancient hand-coiling technique, her work enacts ancestral knowledge as living transmission. Named to Architectural Digest Middle East's AD100 in 2024 and 2025, she has exhibited at the Triennale di Milano, the Petrie Museum (London), and 1-54 Art Fair. Her work has entered the permanent collections of the Saint Louis Art Museum, the High Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum. She was the inaugural artist in residence at No. 2 Main.
Elias Mung'ora (Kenyan, b. 1992, Nyeri, Kenya) lives and works in Nairobi. A member of Brush Tu, a Nairobi-based artists' collective, his richly layered paintings explore the fragmented social and physical landscape of contemporary Nairobi — the traces of previous lives embedded in spaces that have been repurposed and reclaimed across generations. His work is held in the I&M Bank Collection, and has been promised to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the New Orleans Museum of Art, among other notable collections including the Rodney Miller Collection, Nicolas Jay Collection, and Sir John Rose Collection. He was the winner of the 2016 Manjano Art Prize and a finalist in the 2018 Barclays L'Atelier competition.
Birhane Worede (Ethiopian, b. 1998, Addis Ababa) grew up in Addis Ababa, inspired by the frantic energy of the world-famous Merkato, where he began sketching figures, ideas, and colours from an early age. He graduated with gold medal honors — the highest distinction — in Painting from the Alle School of Fine Art and Design, Addis Ababa University, in 2021. Working in oil on canvas, his gestural figurative practice moves fluidly between representation and abstraction, exploring the disconnection of figures absorbed in digital devices and the psychological voids they inhabit. His work has been exhibited at Urevbu Contemporary (Memphis), Chilli Art Projects (London), Circle Art Gallery (Nairobi), and Montague Contemporary (New York).
Wole Lagunju (Nigerian, b. 1966, Oshogbo) is a contemporary Yoruba artist associated with Onaism, a movement of the Ife Art School dedicated to reimagining the forms and philosophies of traditional Yoruba art and design. He graduated in Fine Arts and Graphic Design from the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) in 1986. He was awarded the Philip L. Ravenhill Fellowship by UCLA in 2006, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award in 2009, and the Northern Trust Prize in 2023. His work is held in the Denver Art Museum, the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Toledo Art Museum, the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, the World Bank, the Norval Foundation, the United States Art in Embassies Collection in Nigeria, and the Africa First Collection, among others. His work is currently on view at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and the Amistad Center, Hartford.
