Zekarias Musele Thompson (b. 1983, they/them/their) is an artist based in Oakland, CA, and Reykjavik, IS often working in sonic composition, mark-making, performance, photography, collaborative group practice, and writing. Their practice is concerned with humanity’s conceptual and emotional organizational structures—and how we bring them into material form. Zekarias has presented solo exhibitions and projects at the Museum of the African Diaspora, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, The Lab, Gray Area, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, and the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies. They have performed and been in group exhibitions at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art in the Bay area — as well as Associate Gallery, Ásmundarsalur, and Open in Reykjavík, Iceland.