Mendi + Keith Obadike make music, art, and literature. Their projects include a series of large-scale public sound art works: Blues Speaker (for James Baldwin) at The New School in NY, Free/Phase at the Chicago Cultural Center, Sonic Migration in Philadelphia, PA and Ring Shout (for Octavia Butler) at Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, CA in late 2016. Their gallery exhibitions include Numbers Station [Furtive Movements] at RYAN LEE Gallery in 2015 and the current group show, Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966) at The Whitechapel Gallery, London. They were recently awarded the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award Biennial Award.