Bianca Censori tapped into her architecture background with a recent visit to Columbia University, as seen in photos shared to social media this week.
For those unfamiliar, Censori, whose husband is the artist formerly known as Kanye West, does indeed have a background in architecture, a field in which she obtained degrees in her hometown of Melbourne. These days, she’s known more for her work in the performance art space, including last year’s BIO POP: THE ORIGIN piece.
In photos, Censori is seen looking on as students discuss their projects at Avery Hall in New York. A rundown of the day’s events, dated April 28 and seen below, lists Censori as a guest for the proceedings, crediting her as an “architectural designer and artist.”
Censori’s appearance was connected to Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP). Per a rep for Censori, she was invited by Professor Christoph Kumpusch to serve as a guest juror at GSAPP for its Advanced IV Studio Final Review. This year’s (NOK) Next-of-Kin studio program explored themes of disconnection, aging, and care through community-focused architectural systems.
“Bianca is the kind of mind that does not announce itself – it just recalibrates the room,” Kumpusch said in a statement provided to Complex. “Ideas start radiating at a depth conversations don’t automatically reach. We spent a semester interrogating care, kinship, and the infrastructures that mutate when bodies and communities are finally taken seriously – and she walked in and cracked it wide open. Some collaborations are simply inevitable. Bianca was a highlight of the day and the students are still buzzing.”
Next for Censori, at least according to a previously shared schedule, are two performance art pieces that will expand the story first introduced by the aforementioned BIO POP. Both CONFESSIONAL: THE WITNESS and BIANCA IS MY BABY DOLL: THE IDOL are slated for this year, though specific dates are not yet publicly listed. Additional pieces are set for 2027, 2029, 2031, and 2032.
In March, Censori helmed the official video for Ye’s Travis Scott-featuring Bully track “Father.” In comments shared with Complex, Censori detailed the artistic intentions behind the video.
“The film presents a church not as a real place, but as a surreal dreamlike environment, where time feels slowed, spatial logic is distorted, and reality becomes fantasy,” she said at the time.
