Image: Zoid Hæm, BLKRAINBOW, photography & collage. Image courtesy of the artist.
Zoid Hæm: BLKRAINBOW
April – June 2026 @ Parsons Theater
Location:
Parsons Theater, 1 E Mem Pkwy Entrance, Northglenn, CO 80233
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA) and artist Zoid Hæm present BLKRAINBOW, a solo exhibition using photography, collage and installation to explore how Black life evolves in the wake of ecological and societal collapse. Inspired by the black rainbow, a rare phenomenon formed through catastrophic conditions of smoke and ash, the work proposes a visual field where destruction bends into color and possibility. Drawing on James Baldwin’s idea that people are trapped in history and history is trapped in them, the exhibition places the viewer within the cyclical nature of time and asks how memory might interrupt our destructive patterns and imagine new futures.
About the Artist
Zoid Hæm is a Black American artist and storyteller. After receiving a BFA in Film Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, Zoid became the first student to earn a dual Master’s degree: an MFA in integrated media arts practices and an MBA in Entrepreneurship and Real Estate from CU Boulder. He is a published poet, college professor, art critic, curator, filmmaker, ex-NFL player, and performance artist.
Zoid’s art applies the principles of auto-ethnography to connect his personal experiences to the wider cultural narrative of Black Americans—a narrative sustained through folklore, spirituality, and rebellious expression. Through physical and digital mediums Zoid creates new myths that weave the future with the past and dreams with reality in the hopes of creating a new dimension of transcendence. His art seeks to suture the wounds of oppression by establishing a new connection to symbols that can educate us on our distorted history, critique our modern culture, and raise us to our greatest hopes.
Zoid is also the founder of Zoid Art Haus (ZAH), a creative design studio that offers art direction and project management to businesses and artists to achieve its mission of creating community through art. Through ZAH, Zoid creates installations, curates group exhibitions, documents visual and literary archives, and develops spaces where storytelling, performance, and design converge to explore art as a means of education, political resistance, and economic development.
Our Community Partners
BLKRAINBOW exhibition and associated programs are part of a collaboration between Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA) and Northglenn Arts in Adams County. Through this initiative, BMoCA presents free, museum-quality exhibitions by regional artists at community partners and complementary programs at the libraries and neighboring schools. The collaboration works to expand accessible educational and cultural opportunities for Adams County residents of all ages and backgrounds.
Thank you to our generous sponsors: The BMoCA and Adams County collaboration is funded in part by the Scientific & Cultural Facilities District, the Kemper Family Foundations, UMB Bank, n.a., Trustee, the Sachs Family Foundation, and Robin and Kevin Luff.