Nahom Ghebredngl is an Eritrean American sculptor and installation artist. Born in Asmara, Eritrea, he emigrated to mid-Michigan with his parents at the age of five.

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His work is centered on leveraging embodiment, failure, and tactility as interfaces for exploring the interpersonal. 

 

It’s through stickiness, softness, strength, and sharpness that we begin to unravel our environment and the stimuli it offers. This embodied experience of material holds an odd but familiar way of relating to the world. The personal, private quality of language. The failure of translation in relationship, the weight of entanglement. 

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In the same way, the artist’s accumulated objects and their interactions invite viewers into moments of translation, freedom, capture, seduction, exhaustion, and failure. 

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Nahom ​lives and works in Providence, RI, where he is pursuing an MFA in sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design.