Monsieur Zohore (b. 1993, Potomac, MD) is an Ivorian-American artist whose practice is rooted in the politics of transfiguration. Working across performance, sculpture, painting, video, and installation, Zohore stages acts of consumption, cleaning, and care as complex rituals—spaces where meaning is made, exhausted, and remade.

Zohore’s work, marked by an attraction to cleverness, sinister undertones, and heartbreaking depth, draws from art history, queer theory, postcolonial thought, and popular culture. His pieces move fluently between devotional humor and bureaucratic horror, revealing how intimacy and erasure operate at the level of form. At the center of his practice is an inquiry into the personification of objects and the objectification of people— how bodies are rendered useful, disposable, or divine.

He treats domestic labor not as metaphor, but as medium. His recurring use of humble or overlooked materials— such as paper towels, municipal infrastructure, surplus ephemera, and quotidian experiences—illuminates how systems of power permeate the everyday. Zohore’s installations and performances do not aim to reflect reality, but to rupture it gently, deliberately, and without apology.

Through a lush vocabulary of repetition, refusal, and ritual, his work foregrounds labor as both sacrament and critique. He invites audiences to consider what transformation looks like when nothing is stable and everything is at stake.