jaamil olawale kosoko is a multi-spirited Nigerian American choreographer, author, performance artist, and curator. Their interdisciplinary practice merges performance, video, sculpture, and poetry, exploring queer Black theory, emergence, and rest-care strategies for BIPOC+ liberation and reparation. jaamil is the author of Black Body Amnesia: Poems and Other Speech Acts and two chapbooks, Animal in Cyberspace and Notes of an Urban Kill-Floor. Their works—including The (chrysalis) Archives, Black Body Amnesia, Chameleon, Séancers, and the Bessie-nominated #negrophobia—have toured internationally to venues such as the Guggenheim Museum, EMPAC, ICA at VCU, Montréal Arts Interculturels, New York Live Arts, and the Wexner Center for the Arts. kosoko’s honors include the Doris Duke Performing Arts Technology Lab Grant, NEFA National Dance Project, LMCC’s Extended Life Residency, a Pew Fellowship, and the Princeton Arts Fellowship, among others. In 2026, kosoko was named a Guggenheim Fellow and received the Robert Rauschenberg Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.