Dogon Krigga is a Columbia, South Carolina based multi-disciplinary artist and graphic designer. They primarily practice the art of mixed media collage as an Afrosurrealist. Their interests in journalism and music production brought them into community with musicians for whom Dogon began creating commissioned works of digital collage. Dogon Krigga received early creative mentorship and influence from visual artist Tom Feelings and Walter Rutledge, a NY-based choreographer and multidisciplinary artist who was taught by Alvin Ailey and Romare Bearden.
Krigga evolved their practice from digital art to include hand-cut paper collage and assemblage with printed and cut vinyl on acrylic and metal, as well as installations. These artworks are an exploration and preservation of Queer, Black culture through a Surrealist perspective. Krigga is also a Graphic Designer with experience in commercial print, signage design, and signage project management that includes wide-format printing, metal fabrication, and acrylic fabrication. Krigga has created murals, exterior and interior signage displays for the main branch of Richland Library, SC State University, the 1801 Extension of SCSU, One Columbia For Arts & Culture, and Urban Wok restaurants.
Dogon Krigga’s works have been shown in several solo and group exhibitions to include; Tapp’s Fine Art Center, The Sumter County Gallery of Art, Jasper Magazine/The Jasper Project, The Bakery ATL, The Koger Center for the Arts, Columbia Museum of Art and The Goodall Gallery. Krigga’s work can be found in numerous public and private collections, including the IP Stanback Museum. In 2023, they were Artist-In-Residence for Richland Library in Columbia, SC, producing and hosting community-based art programming and an exhibition Time & Time Again: Exploring the Antique Blacks--A Rootworker’s Tarot. Dogon was also the first Artist-In-Residence for the 2023 Summer Residency at Mike Brown Contemporary Gallery in Columbia, SC. Dogon’s artistic ventures also include the Collaborative Cohort Residency with The Highlander Center in New Market, TN (2020). Krigga is a recipient of grants from the SC Arts Commission and Alternate Roots. Since 2024, they are an SC Arts Commission Artist Business Initiative Grant recipient, and a recipient of the Wideman Davis Dance Fellowship Grant.
Publication features of their work include “The African American Dream” by De Volkskrant (Amsterdam, March 2018), Volume 25.1: Yemassee Journal (University of South Carolina, 2018), and “Dogon Krigga and Afrofuturism” by Jasper Magazine (2017). Krigga has been commissioned to design artwork for the covers of “Black Quantum Futurism” by Rasheedah Philips, “My Momma Told Me” podcast, renown video essayist, FD Signifier, and “BloodFresh” by Ebony Stewart. Recently, Dogon provided artwork for “Only Believe” by Jennifer Bartell. Dogon served as the lead designer for Ingrid LaFleur’s 2017 mayoral campaign for Detroit, MI. Krigga has designed album artwork for King Britt, Kyle Bent, Hieroglyphic Being, Monty Luke, and Vibes Records. Dogon most recently served as the Marketing Director and Sr. Graphic Designer for Famously Hot South Carolina Pride in 2024 and 2025. Dogon is currently the Brand Director for Brooklyn Level Up.
Artist Statement
"they only kill you when you're right(eous)" is an uplifting of the Black Radical Tradition. The vanguard and intelligentsia that organized, mobilized, educated, and informed the Black Proletariat are remembered and venerated here. This work acknowledges the purpose and the struggle of radical Black political activists. This work names the American government and it's agents, capitalism, the delusional myth of white patriarchal supremacy, and global fascism as the culprits and perpetrators of these lynchings and murders. These acts, some sanctioned by the state, are acts of war against Black people.
Assata Shakur
Fred Hampton
Lil' Bobby Hutton
John Africa & 10 other MOVE members
Sandra Bland
Oluwatoyin Salau
Muhiyidin Moye
Darren Seals
Sadie Roberts-Joseph
Bunchy Carter
John Huggins
Duanna Johnson
"an opportunity" is a critique of the capitalist practice of labor exploitation in the art industry. This work serves as a reminder to all creatives that in solidarity, we have the power to control our destiny, and be the first to benefit and profit from our creative labor. The art industry does not exist without the labor and existence of artists. We have the ability, right, and power to shape the industry, organizations, and institutions to our will.