Eyob Kitaba was born in Ethiopia. He graduated with a BA in 2006 from the Addis Ababa University Alle School of Fine Art and Design with a focus on painting. Since that time, he has been working as a full [...]
Madiaw is a theater director, performance artist and social activist based from Dakar, Senegal. His work fuses cinema, theater, and spoken-word. His latest work engages with the protection of street children in Dakar. He works as the artistic director of [...]
Mifta Zeleke was born in 1984 in Gainbe near Jimma in Ethiopia. He graduated with BA in English Languages and Literature in 2010 and with MA in TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) in 2013 from Addis Ababa University. [...]
Onyis Martin was born in 1987 in Kenya. He has won awards to exhibit in Taiwan at the Taipei International Art Competition in 2014 and 2015, the Kenya Art Fair(2015), Circle Art Gallery’s exhibitions Paper II and Freedom|Flight|Refuge, Simama group [...]
Jessica Atieno is both a fine and graphic artist having graduated with a degree in graphic arts from the Technical University of Kenya. She works in an array of mixed media and installation to explore themes of feminism, modernity and [...]
Kibrom Gebremedhin (born 1984) is an Artist and Art Educators based in Addis Ababa. Starting from 2008 he works as a lecturer at the Alle school of Fine Arts and Design in the department of Art Education which he coordinate [...]
Ruth Ademasu was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1983 and graduated from AAU School of Fine Arts and Design in Industrial Design in 2007. She then took a one-year photography course with Desta for Africa (DFA). She is an [...]
Born on 25th September 1989, Serah Chibombwe is a vibrant female upcoming artist who has been practicing art since her 4th grade at South-end Primary School in Lusaka; academically this only lasted till her 9th grade at Parklands Secondary school [...]
Papa Shabani’s photography explores the boundary between art and documentary. His art practice aims to peel off the layers of the viewers’ preconceptions that often camouflage his subjects, so that he can document them in their unabridged form. Through committed [...]
Ange Tchetmi Ndjeukoua is a young Cameroonian curator. She studied Art History at the University of Yaounde 1 where she obtained her Master 1. After that, she collaborated with artists such as Barthelemy Toguo at Bandjoun Station (museum), where she [...]
Nyakallo Maleke (b.1993) is an artist based in Johannesburg. She recently graduated with a BAFA degree (Wits 2015). She works primarily with installation but other mediums that she experiments with include video and printmaking. Her practice involves an experimental, observational [...]
Born in 1993, Martha Kazungu is a Ugandan Curator and Writer currently living and working in Kampala. She graduated with a BA Industrial Fine Art & Design from Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Art at Makerere University majoring [...]
“Art is in my DNA”. Mercy Moyo is a painter, sculptor and photography. She studied at the Peter Birch School of Art and Design and the National Gallery of Zimbabwe Visual Art Studios in 2003. As a child she would [...]
Ayo Akinwande was born in Lagos and studied Architecture at Covenant University in Nigeria. In his journey to creative freedom, he found expression in the art of photography and has since sought to expound his expressive and thematic scope. He [...]
Born on the 4th of July 1988 Uwase is a self taught Collage artist based in Kigali, Rwanda Being a female artist in my country is something people will not understand easily. With so much surprise, they ask how it is [...]
Yves Jonathan MAKONGO NSOBLEY was born January 20, 1984 in Douala, Cameroon. He is currently artistic assistant and project manager at the contemporary art center doual’art. He graduated in Human Geography from the University of Douala, where he obtained a [...]
Born in 1988 in Harare, Zimbabwe. Lives and works in Harare Mbare is Harare’s and perhaps Zimbabwe’s most vibrant and notorious ghetto. Allegedly ridden with hooliganism, violence and prostitution, Mbare is said to parallel the conditions of Harare for Zimbabweans [...]
Euridice Kala (b. 1987, Maputo, lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa) is an independent artist and curator. She completed the Advanced Photography course at Market Photo Workshop (Johannesburg) in 2012. Her practice involves photography, video, performance and space installations [...]
Gadi Ramadhani (B. April 10, 1986 Kigoma, Tanzania) is a self-taught Tanzanian visual artist who started painting from a very young age and later received an MAPP-SETA learnership to study printmaking at the Artist Proof Studio in Johannesburg, which is [...]
Ian Mwesiga graduated with a BA Industrial Fine Art & Design from Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and fine Arts at Makerere University (2014). He has undertaken two residencies at 32° East | Ugandan Arts Trust (2014) and Kuona Trust [...]
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(c) Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos 2010- 2014
