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A GOD OF HER OWN MAKING

The multidemsional call to collective imagination, expression and liberation in which the divine femine takes center stage.

a GOD OF HER OWN MAKING X LA LOUVER

A GOD OF HER OWN MAKING is an immersive spatial opera performed by JOJO ABOT accompanied by intricately woven layers of voices, dancers, and mesmerizing visuals. This performance is the enactment of a new kind of ritual, one that leads to a trance-like realm in which the senses awaken, and portals open to the divine. This performance coincides with Frieze Week Los Angeles 2024. Presented in partnership with Meyer Sound Labs, ARUP and Cykik.

ANYTHING & EVERYTHING

Live spatial immersive performance at JOJO ABOT's solo exhibition, "A GOD OF HER OWN MAKING" in partnership with LA Louver gallery, Meyer Sound, ARUP and Cykik. Original music written, produced and performed by JOJO ABOT ft Esperanza Spalding and Estere.

Live performance featuring Laura Escude, Aanka Neal, and Tihane

-SOLO EXHIBITION-

A multimedia experience created by JOJO ABOT. Consisting of sculpture, textiles, film, spatial sound, painting, and performance, A GOD OF HER OWN MAKING brings together manifold aspects of JOJO ABOT’s ever-expanding oeuvre. Unlimited by categorical confines of genre and medium and enhanced by three discrete activations, this exhibition focuses on the transformative and sacred power of the divine feminine, inspiring conversations around collective elevation and engagement with our spiritual selves. Presented in partnership with LA Louver Gallery (Los Angeles, CA)

All original works by JOJO ABOT

Email to include in exhibitions, collections etc. info@jojoabot.com

-WEAVING SACRED FUTURES-

Discussion led by JOJO ABOT with artist and abolitionist Patrisse Cullors, cultural leader Michelle Mitchell, and artist Alison Saar. Weaving Sacred Futures explores the role of creatives, leaders and world builders in creating spaces for free thought, limitless expression, and communal solidarity. This discussion will delve into the potential we have to serve as vessels who channel consciously from the inner/outer spirit realm for the birthing of harmonious and life-affirming futures. It invites us into imagining intuitive and divine feminine-centered systems as foundational elements for sustainable world-building.

 LIVE AT REDCAT (Los Angeles)

A GOD OF HER OWN MAKING is an immersive spatial opera performed by interdisciplinary artist, vocalist and composer JOJO ABOT. Accompanied by voices, dancers, and mesmerizing visuals, JOJO ABOT explores the power of new and ancient technologies for collective healing by drawing from her own heritage as an Ewe woman from West Africa. From these influences and histories, a new kind of ritual is born, one that leads to a trance-like realm in which the senses awaken and portals open to the divine.

EVEN IN THE DARK

Live at REDCAT, Los Angeles

Original music produced and written by JOJO ABOT with additional vocals by Esperanza Spalding and Estere. Performance features Lioness Sia, Zoel Esperanza and Andrea Soto

With support from Meyer Sound and The Center for Cultural Power

August, 2023 Los Angeles, CA

LIVE AT NATIONAL SAWDUST (NEW YORK)

JOJO ABOT and National Sawdust are thrilled to share with you a world premiere of A GOD OF HER OWN MAKING, as part of National Sawdust’s Season 8 Opening Weekend.

A GOD OF HER OWN MAKING is an immersive opera in which the human vessel serves as a primary instrument and conduit for sound as a healing pathway to the divine. Incorporating both old and new technologies, woman and machine come together in sacred co-creation. 

2018 Artist-in-Residence and acclaimed interdisciplinary artist JOJO ABOT returns with the debut of this immersive and otherworldly experience, featuring musician and restorative arts devotee esperanza spalding. Created, directed, and composed by JOJO ABOT during a long season of uncertainty, separation, and global unrest, A GOD OF HER OWN MAKING builds on JOJO ABOT’s exploration of spirituality, and incorporates spalding’s lineages and practices of restorative music.

In A GOD OF HER OWN MAKING, JOJO ABOT— an ewe woman from Ghana, West Africa, references indigenous practices in which the feminine is a conduit for the divine holding space as a portal and point of intercession for all mankind. For the first time ever, National Sawdust's Meyer Sound spatial sound system serves as a tool for inducing a state of expansive presence, awareness, and ascension while amplifying a call to (re)turn to an ancient self that is in unity with all of creation. In this one-of-a-kind performance, JOJO ABOT and Spalding invite you to tap back into a deep love for nature and each other so we can imagine and dare make manifest more harmonious, nourishing and intentional futures.

Program Credits: Created, Directed, and composed by JOJO ABOT Live Performers: JOJO ABOT (vocals) & esperanza spalding (vocals, electric bass, double bass) Recorded vocals: JOJO ABOT, esperanza spalding, ​​Estère Choreography: JOJO ABOT Spatial Sound Design and Live Mixing: Garth MacAleavey, JOJO ABOT Spatial Sound Consultation by Steve Ellison, Meyer Sounds Sound engineers: Garth MacAleavey, Steve Ellison, Konstantin Ladurner p/k/a “Kontent,” and Kyrian Okane; Creative Producer: Nicole Merritt Chari Costumes: JOJO ABOT, House of Aama, NG2_Studios

 THE RETURN OF MAWU

THE RETURN OF MAWU is a visionary series of images and videos that follows the arrival of 11 ancient deities, divine beings born across infinite dimensions of time and space who now return to Earth to remind us of our true essence. They come to awaken our remembrance of a life beyond fear, a life in sacred harmony with all of creation. With grace and power, these deities offer messages of healing and restoration, guiding us through their timeless wisdom and sacred presence. They reveal pathways toward a more life-affirming world, urging us to embrace our individual and collective responsibility. Through them, we remember that we are never separate but rather a part of an interconnected sacred whole.These deities ignite higher consciousness and awaken unconditional love within us, weaving us back into right relationship with all sentient beings. No longer conquerors, we are called to rise as humble stewards and guardians of life who honor all beings as we wish to be honored. Recognizing that our fates are intertwined, we are called to co-create a world rooted in harmony, unity, and collective abundance.

Manifested through the elemental forces of earth, water, fire, and air, these deities embody divine feminine energy and sacred fertility. They breathe new life into us, summoning us to heal the imbalances that plague our world. Through vivid color and embodied beauty, they deliver ancient codes and potent cosmic truths that reconnect us to our origins and illuminate the universal laws that govern all existence.

Rooted in the cosmology of the Ewe and Fon peoples and embodied by an Ewe woman, these sacred beings carry the energy of generations. Nurtured and nourished through centuries of devotion, offerings, prayer, and reverence by one of the world’s most ancestral communities. These deities remain alive, potent, and present…sustained by love, fed by devotion, and swift in response.To honor them is to honor the divine within yourself for there is no separation. They are you. As living embodiments of the creator, the creation, and the act of creating, their messages transcend all boundaries reminding us of eternal truths that defy time, race, class, and culture.

May they guide us back to the sacred knowing within: to love, balance, compassion, empathy, grace, forgiveness, unity, hope, and deep reverence for the Earth and one another. To know them is to know the divine nature of God and her many aspects that live waiting to be amplified within you.

POWER TO THE GOD WITHIN

A self portrait series honoring the Gods of JOJO ABOT’s ancestry. Created through profound ceremonies, each stroke, texture and position was guided by the divine herself. A meditative and devotional manifestation, these very personal offerings now become available to us all. May they be as powerful as you call them to be.

Mawu Kalẽtɔ - God of Courage
$111.00

God as the ability to overcome fear and obstacles. God as the willpower to see beyond limits and invoke a knowing that makes the unbearable bearable. A call to bravery and a willingness to face darkness, pain and all other unpleasant states with resolve, love and grace. Courage is saying- “I’ve got this and I will not give in to doubt or fear”. A quiet fire that blazes alongside our feelings of terror and vulnerability yet refusing to waver or give up. A spirit holding up our spine when we are tempted to cave. An ever living well of strength and blessed victory.

This card represents the willpower to move forward despite our fears, activating bravery in the face of life’s unexpected turns. The commitment to “doing it anyway” understanding that even though things may not work out the first time, we must dare to try again with more vigor and dedication knowing that no circumstance is permanent. We are invigorated to approach life as gifted alchemists, able to transform our outcome trusting that this spirit is alive in us. This is a sober setting aside of beliefs that we may be too weak or unable to achieve our dreams. A devotional practice of letting go of thoughts that undermine our spiritual power in an effort to take on values that ground us in our untapped potential. May we experience a courage powerful enough to move mountains. May we always recall a reason to never give up whether it be our values, our loved ones, our passions or our very selves.

POWER TO THE GOD WITHIN

Photography, Face Art and edits by JOJO ABOT

© 2025 JOJO ABOT

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Mawu Nukunutɔ - God of Miracles
$111.00

God as limitless possibility . A force who makes all things possible. The one who does the unexpected, the magical, the unbelievable. The one who pulls from multiple dimensions to make all things possible within this dimension. Defying the laws of gravity, this spirit opens otherwise closed doors and lifts us from our overwhelm and into resolution. Bringing forth what is often seen as divine intervention beyond explanation, this is proof of the presence of the divine in our lives. Bearing witness to pivotal moments when God shows up and changes our circumstance for the better. Miracles increase our faith into something greater, serving as a sign that God IS.

This card is a prompt to practice faith as deliberate action. To make room for divinely led change, healing, expansion and elevation without doubt. Being fully aware that our beliefs serve as activating agents for our manifestations, we are called to clarify our spirit and invoke the ability to see beyond that which the eyes permit in order to conjure lasting remedies to our challenges. This card is a sign that new pathways are appearing and you are on a journey towards being your own miracle through the renewal of your mind, body and spirit. By allowing the supernatural to be your norm, the god of miracles becomes a friend working in ways that are complex yet totally aligned with our success, joy and the fulfillment of our sacred purpose. May our faith lead to inexplicable miracles. May God be ever evident in our lives.

POWER TO THE GOD WITHIN

Photography, Face Art and edits by JOJO ABOT

© 2025 JOJO ABOT

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Mawu Ese - God Of Destiny
$111.00

God as the architect of destiny, creating conditions for our birth, familial design, gifts and inclinations that specifically are in place to give us a greater chance at walking in our highest purpose and calling. A force of co-creation influenced by ancestral inheritance whether good or bad, this spirit reminds us that we each walk with a unique code upon our head. A reminder of who we are called to be and why we are the way we are. Offering wisdom for weaving together all parts of self, this force links our cause and our effect, working with us to be in sacred alignment with our most prosperous destiny.

This card is an invitation to pay attention to the patterns we hold close and the beliefs that impact our everyday lived experience. What do we really believe about ourselves? What stories have we internalized that block the flow of creator’s provision for us? Do we consider ourselves deserving? Are we good stewards of the greatness placed within us? Are we daring to walk in the fullness of our destiny allowing the divine to shine through us? Are we in harmony with our soul’s desire and our spirit’s call? It is time to reach higher beloved, see clearer, listen deeper and walk in our blessed destiny. It also represents an invitation to consciously realign our lives and our actions, clean house, ground our foundational beliefs in love. Setting into motion great faith  in order to creatively craft the life we pray for. With awareness of what our weakness, vices, challenges, predispositions and trials may be, we create systems and foundational support that keep us tethered to all that is in our greatest good. With spiritual awareness, we work with our destiny as conscious co-creators in alchemising the perceived good, bad and ugly for our overall bliss.

Beloved, it is time to shift perspective and take charge of our own fate. Believing that we have all that is required and more to thrive in this lifetime. May we always re-member our power. May we be eternally grounded in our sacred purpose, passion and calling.

POWER TO THE GOD WITHIN

Photography, Face Art and edits by JOJO ABOT

© 2025 JOJO ABOT

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Mawu Nublanui Kpɔla - God of Mercy
$111.00

God as the activation of compassion and forgiveness, especially being aware of one’s power and impact. A withholding of punishment led by a commitment to unconditional love and repair. A God who does not play tit for tat but gives room for us to see that we are deserving of forgiveness, a second chance and blessed opportunity in hopes that we may extend this to others. This ancient spirit teaches us to lay down the need for retribution and give room for our hearts to grow.

This card is a call to greater compassion, listening, understanding and patience. Where we release the need for vengeance and allow for love to be the lens through which we process all things. A practice of tenderness, where we show up with more loving kindness rather than anger, aggression and harsh judgment.

Beloved, it is time to call in this sacred energy to allow us to see our circumstance from a renewed perspective with less tension, resistance and a need to be “right”. One driven by a desire for true collective wellbeing without prejudice. One seeking to bring balance to power. One working towards unity, mercy and liberatory love.

May this card allow you to see a more life affirming path forward and may it remind you to be the embodiment of mercy in this world.

POWER TO THE GOD WITHIN

Photography, Face Art and edits by JOJO ABOT

© 2025 JOJO ABOT

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Mawu Tsɔtsɔketɔ - God of Forgiveness
$111.00

God as liberation from the perpetual weight of carrying resentment, anger, hate and the expectation of vengeance. The medicine that offers ease in moments of tension and discord. A conscious decision to clear one’s spirit of hate in ways that free us from long term pain and agony. By activating forgiveness, we free space for greater love to form. We unshackle our souls from the burden of shame, guilt, discord and consistent suffering. We allow our bodies and minds to be rejuvenated by the conscious choice to let love flow into the hardest parts of our being. Softening and transforming us into profound beings capable of seeing past the flaws of others, offering an olive branch and building a bridge to togetherness.

This card is the embodiment of the freedom we receive when we give up the reasons why we should not forgive. It reminds us to lighten our load and choose to walk lightly through this earth knowing that we too will need forgiveness in one way or another. We choose to be aware of the bigger picture, giving our energy to that which unifies rather than that which divides. We discover greater reasons to be focused on gratitude for the lessons our experiences teach us and by doing so, we release the medicine it has in store for us to evolve.

May we never be so distracted by lower frequencies that cause separation, that we are pulled from our divinity. May we always be humble enough to recognize, understand, receive and give gratitude for the blessings along our journey. May we receive life’s pearls regardless of the often surprising shapes they may appear in. May we forgive so that we too may be forgiven.

POWER TO THE GOD WITHIN

Photography, Face Art and edits by JOJO ABOT

© 2025 JOJO ABOT

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

 

BECOME A COLLECTOR

OF THIS SACRED ART

Each high quality fine art print comes with a certificate of authenticity as well as an additional card with a message and codes for activating each deity.You are welcome to collect individually or as a full set of 11.

Photography, Face Art/Paint and edits by JOJO ABOT

© 2025 JOJO ABOT

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Mawu Dɔyɔla - God of Healing
$111.00

God as an alchemist, engaging all forms of medicine both seen and unseen to free us from all dis-ease. A spirit that brings us back to harmony physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually through care, presence and love. Guiding us through our root causes, generational traumas, visible and invisible wounds, she holds our hands and helps us weed out that which causes us unnecessary pain. Offering peace and profound transformation that allows us to align with our greatest life path. This deity reconnects us to self, nature and the divine by opening us up to our deepest emotions, helping us let go of all that which no longer serves or weighs us down so that we can make room for infinite life to flow without blockage. With gentle beckons, kindness, patience, compassion, restorative power and love beyond description, the divine witnesses all our ailments without judgement. Here, the creator meets us in our pain with comfort and blessed renewal, giving us the strength to foster inner and outer conditions that support our healing.

This card is a reminder that healing is always possible and that we are never broken beyond repair. It is a symbol that our wounds are being acknowledged and gracefully transformed into wisdom. A call to re-member and re-collect abandoned, forgotten or numbed aspects of self. A point of divine reconciliation, where we heal the dissonance between our inner and outer worlds. Opening a psychic temple, this card activates a sanctuary in times of chaos, helping us remember the medicines of our ancestors and empowering us to be a healing presence for self and others. A spirit offering sweet balm to the soul, this card comes to affirm that we are healing, becoming light as a feather and elevating our spirits. With each breath, we come to know healing as a multifaceted process that engages all senses and all aspects of our lives with a goal to initiate synergy. In this moment, we can choose to get out of our own way and work in collaboration with this spirit to cure our deepest aches. An invitation to be self led in our own healing, we give in to this great life force flowing through all things as we are compelled to permit new chapters, ways of being, ways of thinking and experiencing this great treasure that is our lives. May we always be in tune with the healer within knowing that we walk with this sacred spirit inside of us always and in ALL ways.

POWER TO THE GOD WITHIN

Photography, Face Art and edits by JOJO ABOT

© 2025 JOJO ABOT

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Mawu Sogbo Lisa - God The Creator
$111.00

God as unlimited creation energy where new life takes form over and over again. A meeting of sun and moon, two sides of the same coin supported by a third, the thunder god, in sacred trinity. A blessed union of masculine, feminine and the androgynous spirit, this deity governs both night and day, remaining ever present and omniscient. A sovereign and omnipotent energy that births something out of nothing, this deity is evidence that things are never as they seem. She invokes an urge to look closer and understand life more intimately. A supreme alchemist and magician manifesting new realities, this deity sustains the breath within us and connects us to all living things. She continues to be the unifying thread and the heartbeat creating for the purpose of balance where each creation knows her place as well as her interconnected to all things. A power existing outside of time and space, this spirit lives through its creations. An evolving force in constant transformation that can never be defined or contained.

This card is an invitation to align with the divine creative force within us knowing we have everything we need to shape realities we are proud to live in. To ask “who am I beyond my wounds and perceived limitations?”. To awaken the God within with potent regenerative power that leads to our inner spiritual blooming. By embracing our most authentic self and mastering our mind, emotions and impulses, we consciously design every moment of our lives while engaging others with this devotion to positively impactful co-creation. We awaken the portals of fertility within us to birth new things, ideas and ways of being that build us up. Becoming one with creation through meditation, prayer and ceremony, we are given the wisdom to create not as performance but as an offering and service. Fueled by love, may we recognize that our thoughts, words and actions create our lived experience so that we can move with sacred awareness and live with intention. May we acknowledge all the spirits, guides and sentient beings here to support our most harmonious co-creation in all timelines and realms.

POWER TO THE GOD WITHIN

Photography, Face Art and edits by JOJO ABOT

© 2025 JOJO ABOT

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Mawu Lɔlɔ̃tɔ - God is love
$111.00

God as the embodiment and manifestation of an unlimited and unconditional love. A love that need not be earned, but is given freely for our good. A love that receives us just as we are, while gently inviting us to rise, to expand, and to come into greater harmony with ourselves and all of creation. This is the spirit of the Divine Mother and Father, an essence that feels like home continually offering safety, peace, and wellbeing.

It is a love that seeks balance in all things, a love that knows no bounds. A love that pours forth infinitely, needing nothing in return. A love that forgives and heals over and over again, with great wisdom and discernment. This is God as the giver without condition, without manipulation, without hidden agendas. An infinite field of presence, where we can connect directly with the purest essence of the divine within which there is only absolute oneness. In this sacred space, this temple of belonging and bliss, we experience a deep and indescribable connection to the life force energy that interconnects us all. Here, in this space of completion, liberation, and trust, there are no burdens or fears…only the presence of love guiding us into deeper re-union.

This card is a reminder that true love comes from within when we walk in harmony with creation, living, breathing, and becoming one with this divine energy. It brings a clarifying sense through which we can see both ourselves and others with greater compassion and acceptance. It invites us to give home to the light within, allowing it to shine unapologetically. With this symbol, we are called to release expectations of perfection and celebrate the fullness of life even in times of conflict. Here, we know that love will always guide us back to unity, especially as we emancipate ourselves from fear. This is an invitation to engage love as a verb, a choice and a devotional practice. A path that softens resentment, invites forgiveness, and clears the way for healing. This card represents a force we can activate not only for ourselves but for all of creation. Call it in. Amplify it. Let it move through every part of your being. In this sacred embodiment, where love is our natural state, ego softens and dissolves. We walk with an enlightened awareness, committed to being vessels for this love. When we drop our guard and show up vulnerably, we allow ourselves to be expanded by this great spirit. This is the force that pulls us into harmony, truth, and wholeness not because we’ve earned it, but because we are always worthy of it. May we always be connected to source. May we always be rooted in who we are…LOVE.

POWER TO THE GOD WITHIN

Photography, Face Art and edits by JOJO ABOT

© 2025 JOJO ABOT

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Mawu Nutifafatɔ - God of Peace
$111.00

God as acceptance, understanding, release, reconciliation and integration. The absence of inner and outer conflict, turmoil or violence. A deep knowing that all is well even within turbulence. An enduring force that drives away anxiety, offering room for potent faith and trust to grow. Calling forth a unifying force that brings calm to the storm, easing mind, body and soul. A state of harmony with self, between people, among nations and in the flow of nature. A spirit that is absolute in her resolve to have us master our inner being in order to activate that temple of harmony within ourselves.

This card is a reminder that we must never give the world power over our experience of peace. Grounded in serenity through spiritual enlightenment, we are asked to  heal our physical, emotional, spiritual and societal wounds. A call to unity over division and balance over chaos, we are ushered into wholehearted ease where flow is preferred over active resistance. Where we have the calm to see things from a birds eye view, allowing our thoughts to be reshaped into healing medicine. Choosing a path of nonviolence, we are able to uncover and uproot the lies that uphold our inner turmoil in order to transform our anger, sorrow and grief into compassion and acceptance. Quieting the noise, we initiate deep intuition that guides us towards reconciliation. With it comes an invitation into a state of serenity, graceful ease and a capacity for remaining whole in oneself despite external realities. Exercising this divine right to consistent tranquility, we invoke this healing state from within in order to experience the mastery of self and one’s emotions. It invites us to build a solid foundation to which we can return, ground and lean in knowing ALL IS WELL. 

May we be the evidence and amplification of peace in an unpredictable world. May we be firmly rooted in this frequency of sacred calm.

POWER TO THE GOD WITHIN

Photography, Face Art and edits by JOJO ABOT

© 2025 JOJO ABOT

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Mawu Agakpesese - God Our Solid Foundation
$111.00

God as steadfast confidence in being held, being safe and being protected. A reminder that God is all powerful and can withstand all things. An offering of solid backing, security and support that is unwavering and ever present. A fortress to which we can always return. Here, God shows up as reliable strength, offering us shelter whenever we need. Holding us up, reminding us of our might and resilience. An unchanging ground of enduring strength that inspires trust in something greater. With this collaborative spirit, we are confident, bold and audacious in navigating the unpredictable shifting realities of our lives.

This card is the bringing forth of deep trust knowing there is a constant presence on which we can depend no matter how heavy our lives get. We are reassured that we are carried, watched over and protected no matter our circumstance. Whenever we feel like we are falling apart, may we call upon the divine to show up as this solid foundation that affirms our strength and reminds us we are never alone. A whisper that even when we do not know what is to come next, we trust in the force that keeps and sustains us. May we know that there is always home, support, refuge and a solid rock waiting for us manifested as our ancestors, angels, guides, teachers, loved ones, our very own spirit and earth herself. . Tap in - Lean in. Always and in ALL ways.

POWER TO THE GOD WITHIN

Photography, Face Art and edits by JOJO ABOT

© 2025 JOJO ABOT

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Mawu Amenuvela - God of Salvation
$111.00

God as deliverance from harm, evil or loss. A formidable protection from difficulty and a shield from distress. A force that delivers us from pain by being our saving grace. Preserving us, keeping us intact and restoring us to our highest calibration. In a personal sense void of dogma, this is a return to self, to truth and to completion knowing that we can be rid of the chokehold of the egoic mind and its illusions. In this embodiment, God shows up as the integration of our shadow selves. Gifting us the grace to embrace all aspects of self with tenderness and patience, releasing the weight of all guilt and shame that in the end, separates us from love. Here, the divine promises not to forsake us but to forever be our salvation whenever we call.

This card is a reminder that we are never without hope and that we can evolve past our conditioning, unconscious patterns, unhealthy beliefs and triggers that keep us bound. The summoning of a force that rises from within to be our rescue from the endless cycles of self degradation and self punishment. This is a conjuring of relief knowing that we have a spiritual ally invested in our lives flourishing. With this card we activate spiritual clarity that leads to a more fulfilling path, removing obstacles in our way so that we can experience the goodness of the creator and all of creation.

May we know that we are never beyond being saved or restored to love. May we always have the wisdom to see past the haze and witness the eternal truths of our deserving nature. May we never give up or give in no matter what life throws at us. May we show up as our own dependable saving grace, letting this divine capacity blossom from within always and in ALL ways.

POWER TO THE GOD WITHIN

Photography, Face Art and edits by JOJO ABOT

© 2025 JOJO ABOT

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

JOJO ABOT is an interdisciplinary healer exploring evolving themes of spirituality, identity and community  through music, film, fine art, fashion, photography and various other expressions. Committed to a philosophy of "Message Over Medium", the artist aims to provoke larger conversations and actions  towards collective elevation, healing and harmony. An Ewe woman born in Ghana and currently based in LA, JOJO ABOT offers intimate invitations into the practice of true freedom, love and re-membering through sacred ceremonies of togetherness, reflection and transformation engaging the self as the starting point to unity, universal connection and ascension. Serving as a bridge between the physically and metaphysically, her offerings invite us into a spiritual dance that allows for a coming together of ancestry, traditions and global cultures.

Fresh off the premier of her immersive spatial opera, A GOD OF HER OWN MAKING ft Esperanza Spalding, she expands a blossoming career offering interdisciplinary works in collaboration with the MOMA, Brooklyn Museum, The Ghana Pavilion at La Biennale Di Venezia, Frieze art fair x Theaster Gates x Prada, Hult Center, Armory week NYC, Perez Art Museum Miami and many others. JOJO ABOT has toured with Ms Lauryn Hill, played stages like Afropunk, Roots picnic, Radio city music hall, The Apollo Theater, Kennedy Center, Greek theater and more while being the first unsigned artist to perform live for NYC's Times Square new year's eve concert to over a million people. 

Honoring the call to limitless expression, JOJO ABOT remains an exhibiting artist showing works in various solo and group exhibitions featuring sculpture, textile, painting, installations and mixed media offerings that echo her visions of worlds past, present and future. An alumni of the New Museum's incubator program, New Inc, and former resident at National Sawdust, JOJO ABOT continues to develop and present her interdisciplinary practice through POWER TO THE GOD WITHIN and other curatorial projects. 

2022

“JOJO ABOT, and esperanza spalding, Immerse Audiences in “A GOD OF HER OWN MAKING” I Care If You Listen


“Music Feature: JOJO ABOT,” Feminist


“JOJO ABOT, déesse de l’afro-hypno-sonic music” Nova/ Radio Nova


“FIP en Trans #1 avec Meule, Ariel Tintar et Jojo Abot,” Radio France

2021
“White Magic” Flaunt Magazine (Online and Print)

“Forced Online, an Opera Festival Searches for Intimacy”, New York Times

2020

“10 Questions with... JOJO ABOT Pop-Kultur,” Berlin

2019

“The Liberation of Jojo Abot” Design Hotels (Further)

“The Austin 100: JOJO ABOT,” wbur

“SXSW Music Preview x NPR,” WFIT


“ON GOD, HOME, AND POWER WITH JOJO ABOT,” AFROPUNK

“Review: Womad Day 2”, Songlines

“Womad Festival Review: an all age, all cultures celebration,” The Times

“JOJO ABOT | “No Part Of The World Owes Me Anything” GRIOT

“Review: Womadelaide 2018: all singing, all dancing festival of joy”, The Guardian

“Interview: Jojo Abot talks about new ‘psychedelic gqom’ track,” Music in Africa

“Taking back the power pushed JOJO ABOT to music,” IOL

“Alternative Artist Jojo Abot Dances To The Beat Of Her Own Drum In Psychedelic” Visual “Alime” Ft. Elo And Vuyo,” AFROPUNK

2017

“JOJO ABOT Is a Colorful Vision of Power in ‘Gods Among Men’ & ‘Marching’ Videos: Premiere,” Billboard

“OkayAfrica’s 100 Women” OkayAfrica

“Ghana's Jojo Abot: In the Moment,” Afropop Worldwide

2016

“Review: Bombino, Mokoomba, JOJO ABOT and Others Play Africa Now! at the Apollo,” The New York Times

2015

“Back to Ghana: JOJO ABOT,” BBC

“1xtra: Destination Africa ft Stormzy and JOJO ABOT,” BBC 1xtra

“Terrorism, sexism and corruption, here’s music that covers it all,” CNN

CONTACT

For booking and press inquiries, please email info@jojoabot.com