Jack Barrett is pleased to present Tu Rêves (You're Dreaming), Monsieur Zohore's first solo show with the gallery. The show consists of paintings, sculptures, and a site specific installation that changes over the course of the show.

Devin Kenny for Monsieur Zohore

Mutual affection gives each his share.—Ivorian proverb

Monsieur Zohore’s new suite of works takes on tropes of the aspirational drive as it exists in Ivorian and American contexts: whether they be in the role of a fan, as offspring, as parent, as domestic worker, as lover, as shopper, or even as an artist, and often as multiple at once.

When the rain pours on chili peppers, it does not diminish its virility. | We outside!

The status of the United States as a nation with its origins as multiple colonized lands, congregating (sometimes unwillingly) to become a colonizing force in its own right for over a century, is unique. While some would focus on valorizing myths to justify that Imperialism, for those with experiences outside of the cultural confines of America, other possibilities exist and are viable.

Taking aim for too long can ruin your eyes. | Sh*t or get off the pot. 

What does it mean to put your soul on display? And what of interrogating and speaking back to the forces that informed, or misinformed you, while standing strong on even footing? Kids soak up information like a sponge, or the quilted quicker picker-upper, and the questions start there. Adults are discouraged from unpacking the narratives that have been ossified, reminded that only babies’ bones are soft, and malleable. But no risk, no reward, right?

Monsieur Zohore (b. 1993, Potomac, MD) is an Ivorian-American artist based in New York and Baltimore. His practice is invested in the consumption and digestion of culture through the conflation of domestic quotidian labor with art production. Through performance, sculpture, installation and theater, his practices explore queer histories alongside his Ivorian-American heritage through a multi-faceted lens of humor, economics, art history, and labor.

Zohore received his BFA from the Cooper Union in 2015, and his MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2020. He is the Assistant Professor of Painting and Printmaking at VCU. Recently, he was the 2020 recipient of the WPA and Warhol Foundation Wherewithal Research Grant, and he has been awarded the Socrates Sculpture Park Fellowship for 2021. His work has been exhibited in various venues including Springsteen (Baltimore), Ethan Cohan (New York), Terrault Gallery (Baltimore), New Release Gallery (New York), 56 Henry (New York), Canada Gallery (New York), and Jack Barrett (New York) as well as at the 2020 Material Art Fair (Coyoacan, CMDX). Zohore has also been invited to show at The Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore), Washington Projects for the Arts (Washington D.C.), and at The Columbus Museum of Art (Columbus).