Mitochondria Gallery is pleased to present “Gifts of the Soil,” a group exhibition that brings together works by Shara Mays, Victor Olaoye, John Reno Jackson, Madjeen Isaac, Nedia Were, Izere Antoine, Laju Sholola, and Nathalie Djakou Kassi.
Artist: Shara Mays. Millia. Oil on Canvas. 2025.
Gifts of the Soil, is a group exhibition that explores how local ecosystems shape both personal consciousness and collective cultural identity. By emphasizing the deep ties between land and lived experience, the exhibition highlights the environmental roots of memory, belonging, and place.
Artist: John Reno Jackson. Machineel. 2025
Featuring a range of paintings and sculptures, the show brings together artists whose practices are informed by heritage, adaptation, and cultural transmission. Here, land is not just physical terrain but a generative force that informs identity and community.
Artist: Victor Olaoye. Limb by limb, the earth remembers. Acrylic on Canvas. 2025.
The soil emerges as both material and metaphor, origin and archive, offering a site for ancestral knowledge and evolving cultural expression. Gifts of the Soil invites reflection on the environment as a living repository of meaning, and positions artistic practice as a form of ecological and cultural inquiry.
For the exhibition preview, please contact us at [email protected]
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 19th. 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm.
Public Viewing: July 19th - August 16th, 2025
Address: 2220 Commerce Street #D, Houston, Texas. 77002
Phone: +1.832.271.0193
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