Omari Douglin

Last IKEA, 2026

Oil on paper

Unframed: 14 1/4 x 19 inches

Framed: 7 1/8 x 22 1/8 x 1 1/4 inches

Courtesy of the artist and Matthew Brown

Selected by Ivy Shapiro

Omari Douglin (b. 1992, Brooklyn, NY) lives and works in Los Angeles. In 2019, Douglin received an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College. He received his BFA from The Cooper Union in 2015. 

In 2026, Douglin was commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) as part of its Robert W. Wilson Public Art Initiative to create Junction, a large-scale mural inspired by the institution’s Hamm Archives, installed across from BAM’s Peter Jay Sharp Building in Brooklyn and on view through April 2027.

Solo and two-person exhibitions include Fantasy in Japan, curated by Omari Douglin, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2026); Adrienne und Omari, Super Super Market, Berlin (2025); No Pigs, Ramiken, New York (2025); Art Basel Miami Beach, Matthew Brown and Ramiken, Miami, FL (2024); boutique O, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2024); Four Paintings, Sebastian Gladstone, Los Angeles (2023); Scam Likely, with Lukas Quietzsch, Ramiken Crucible, New York (2023); Wave Gods 2, Ramiken Crucible, New York (2023); The People of New York City, Micki Meng, San Francisco (2022); and Montage Ontology Domain, Theta, New York (2022). 

Recent group exhibitions include Once Within a Time: 12th SITE Santa Fe International, SITE, Santa Fe (2025); The Reminiscence Bump, Braunsfelder, Cologne (2025); Recent Acquisitions, Rubell Museum, Miami, FL (2024); PROGRAM, Matthew Brown, New York (2024); Averard, Ramiken Crucible, London (2022); Apple in the Dark, Harkawik, New York (2022); Their private worlds contained the memory of a painting that had shapes as reassuring gas the uncanny footage of a sonogram, curated by Sedrick Chisom, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2022); Stanley and Marta’s Holiday Fête, Stanley’s, Los Angeles (2021); Mother and Child, Friends Indeed, San Francisco (2021);  and Deathbound and Sexed, Theta, New York, NY (2021).