For The City
Category: Downtown Reframed
Address
1100 Texas Avenue
Houston, TX 77002
Details
Artist: Kaima Marie Akarue
This piece brings together three separate collages, Where the Wild Things Are (2023), Beyoncé Had One of the Best Albums of All Time (2023), and No Church in the Wild (2023). Each work draws from iconic Houston spaces, layering them into a shared landscape that reflects how the city is experienced, remembered, and continually assembled.
About the Artist
Kaima Marie, the daughter of a Nigerian immigrant and a white mother, explores identity through collage, focusing on urbanism, capitalism, and erased narratives.
Kaima constructs layered environments that challenge viewers to reflect on identity, memory, and the spaces we inhabit and often overlook. Her work preserves personal and collective histories, reimagining memory and place.
She has exhibited nationally at institutions like the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, earning accolades such as the 2024 Jones Artist Award and the Carol Crow Fellowship. Her work is part of private and institutional collections, including the MFAH, the Guess Lawson’s, and the Carter Knowles Collection. She received her MFA from the University of Houston in 2025 and recently finished her residency at Black Rock Senegal.
