Exodus Crooks

Exodus Crooks (they/he) is a British-Jamaican multidisciplinary artist and educator recently shortlisted as a 2025 Arts Foundation Future Awards artist. Exodus is interested in self-determination and how it is steered by religion and spirituality. Informed by a fractious domestic life, their practice is auto ethnographical and exists in the orbit of their educational role where they work to reimagine Western pedagogy. Exodus is currently experimenting with assemblage, text, and installation to better understand themes of belonging and free movement.

Exodus serves on a regional arts advisory board and a national artists council that advocates for the development and protection of artists. They have previously exhibited and worked with the Ikon Gallery, iniva, Freelands Foundation, LUX Scotland, Phoenix Arts Centre in Brighton and Serpentine Galleries in London. They are proud to be based in heart of the Midland’s vibrant art community, working closely with local galleries and organisations such as Grand Union, Vivid Projects, The New Art Gallery Walsall, and Wolverhampton Art Gallery.