SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2022
Exercises in Conversation, Kenyan Pavillon, 59th Venice Biennale
2021
Double bill – performance screening, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, UK.
Here in This Room (Sheffield DocFest), S1 ArtSpace.
2019
Yesterday is Today’s Memory, Espace Commines, Paris, France.
NAE Open, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK.
Mother Art Prize, Mimosa House, London, UK.
2018
Laboratoire Agit’ Art, Dak'Art – 13th Biennial of Contemporary African Art, Dakar, Senegal
Ailleurs est ce rêve proche, La Villa du Parc, France
New Threads: Investigating Process and Material, Circle Art Agency, Nairobi, Kenya
2017
Landscapes of the Body, Art Paris Art Fair, Paris, France
VIDEOZOOM (Touring exhibition) Le Murate PAC, Florence, Italy, Museum of Trastevere, Rome, Italy, FM Center for Art, Milan, Italy
2016
Dak'Art – 12th Biennial of Contemporary African Art, Dakar, Senegal
Kabbo Ka Muwala – The Girl’s Basket: Migration and Mobility in Contemporary Art in Southern and Eastern Africa. National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, Makerere Art Gallery, Uganda, Städtische Galerie Bremen, Germany
2015
Caroussa Sonore (in collaboration with Ilpo Jauhiainen as part of Shubbak Festival) Various locations, London, UK
Sustainable Connections – The illy sustainArt World, La Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
African Odysseys, Le Brass, Brussels, Belgium
Concerning the Internal Circle Art Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE
2013
After the Rain, Asni Gallery, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
EDUCATION
2019 - Present
Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London.
PhD in Fine Art
2008 – 2010
University of Essex, UK.
MA Theory and Practice of Human Rights.
2005 – 2008
University of the Creative Arts, UK.
BA (Hons) Fine Art.
RESIDENCIES
Plural Artist in Resident
Despina, Rio de Janeiro
June - July 2022
Fermynwoods Contemporary Art
March - April 2022
Kuta-na Sanaa Residency
Nafasi Art Space, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. 1-31 August 2014
Women Speak Out/La Parole aux Femmes
Residency: Wemah Art Project, Bonendale, Cameroon. 13-27 January 2014
SEMINARS | WORKSHOPS
‘Ordinary Notes’ by Christina Sharpe
Central St. Martins, London, 6 June 2023
Africa Futures; ECAS9
University of Cologne, Germany, 31 May - 3 June 2023.
Tactics and Praxis
St John’s College, University of Cambridge, 11 March 2022.
Queer Art of Feeling
Speaker: Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge. 2 – 3 May 2019
ECAS7 – 7th European Conference on African Studies
Speaker: Basel University, Basel, Switzerland. 29 June – 1 July 2017
Sounds of Change Conference. C/O Alle School of Fine Arts and Design, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Speaker: Goethe institut, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 30 April 2014
Giving Contours to Shadows. C/O Savvy Contemporary
Speaker: The Nest. Nairobi, Kenya. 12 March 2014
Images of Africa
Speaker: Royal Holloway, University of London. 2 November 2011
COMMISSIONS | AWARDS
2024
Literature Matters, Royal Society of Literature, London, UK.
2021
Women’s Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, UK.
Who’s Culture, Metal Culture Peterborough.
2020
Butterfly - Digital Commission, Scarborough Museums Trust
2019
Developing Your Creative Practice - Arts Council England
2010
Human Rights Scholarship Award - University of Essex
Essex County Council Grant for Dear Mr President in partnership with Mwelu Foundation, Nairobi Kenya
For a full CV, please email via the contact page.