Mendi & Keith Obadike

Mendi Obadike (née Lewis; born 1973) and Keith Obadike (born 1973) are a Black American couple who are artists and educators, of Igbo Nigerian heritage. They create music, writing, and art. Their music, performance art, and conceptual internet artwork have been exhibited internationally. They are both professors at Cornell University.

Mendi is a poet and Keith is a composer and sound artist, they are married. Their writing and art projects have been featured in Art Journal, Artthrob, Meridians, Black Arts Quarterly, El País and Tema Celeste, in books such as Internet Art (2004) by Rachel Greene, Sound Unbound (2008), edited by DJ Spooky, and featured several times on WNYC's New Sounds since 2007.