Jonah Batambuze

is an Ugandan-American interdisciplinary artist, cultural architect, and community builder working at the intersection of memory, migration, and material culture. His practice remixes diasporic identity into radical narratives of connection, drawing from embodied knowledge, everyday rituals, and collective memory.

A ritual-based artist working across food, film, installation, and storytelling, Batambuze uses gesture, gathering, and refusal as artistic material. Through these, he reimagines identity not as fixed but as shaped through lived experience and shared authorship.

As the founder of the BlindianProject and lead organizer of South Asians for Black Lives, Batambuze activates global communities through culture as a tool for solidarity, healing, and change. His work doesn't just reclaim Black and Brown intersections; it reimagines them. Sonic memory, communal storytelling, and culinary tradition become blueprints for liberation.

His installations and films operate as living archives, connecting domestic rituals to global histories and challenging systems of caste, race, and representation. His approach is rooted in care, critique, and refusal—not just asking what is remembered but how and by whom.

In June 2025, Batambuze's sculptural installation The Hands of Gods—a sensory archive of food, memory, and resistance—made its European debut at Art Basel, presented at Atelier Mondial as part of the Wild at Art exhibition. His work has also been supported by a Metal Culture UK Artist Residency (2021–22) and premiered at Dortmund Goes Black (2023), among other international platforms.

Batambuze has delivered artist talks, guest lectures, and participatory workshops at institutions including SOAS, St. John's, UCLA, Stanford, Sony Music, BetterCloud, Tara Theatre, and the London Stock Exchange, among others, exploring the power of cultural memory and collective authorship.

He lives and works between London and New York City.