Nairobi-based artist Jim Chuchu works across music, film, photography, and visual arts to explore intersecting worlds. His practice braids together blackness, queerness, and spirituality to create works that challenge conventional narratives and imagine new possibilities for African storytelling.

Pagans VII (2013)

Stories of Our Lives (2014)

Pagans XI: Collectors (2013)

Tapi! (2020)

Scene from "Athman" in Stories of Our Lives (2014)

Pagans IV (2013)

Joe for Chico Leco (2012)

Tuko Macho (2016)

Bethsheba (2016)

To Catch A Dream (2015)

A Machine Dreams of African Print (2020)

Selected Works

Invocations—Video Installation (2015)

A two-part video installation that explores how queer African bodies navigate spaces of tradition, expectation, and self-determination

Stories of Our Lives—An Anthology Film (2014)

An anthology film directed by Jim Chuchu that captures authentic LGBTQ+ experiences in Kenya through five intimate vignettes, screened in over 90 countries worldwide.

Pagans—States of Transcendence (2012-2013)

Image series exploring the transcendent states available to Black bodies - states of being accessed through the mystical, the spiritual, and the otherworldly.