Aiyo Cheboi
2024-25 Culture Push Black Utopian Fellow
Aiyo Cheboi (they/them) is a Black, genderqueer human seeking to nurture interpersonal connections via courageous and tender exchanges of knowledge. They are also an experimental artist / educator nestled within an ecosystem of bio art, cooking + food systems, physical computation + code, and research about regenerative technologies. Spiritually and politically, they’re committed to nurturing individual + collective expressions of imagination.
Aiyo, Cheboi is standing in front of a stone and brick facade with dappled sunlight shining on their smiling face. They wear a black blazer with a black turtleneck shirt underneath. Hanging from their ears are black ceramic earrings, and around their neck is a black amulet of a carved divine feminine ancestor with orange citrine nestled into the amulet’s body.
PROJECT : EXPERIMENTAL FOOD LAB
The Experimental Food Lab is a transitory food laboratory focused on increasing access to food science + regenerative food technologies for low-income, Black (students, grandmas, mothers, caregivers, chefs, artists, climate activists).
