| 1985 |
Born London, England lives and works between Hamburg, Germany, Lagos, Nigeria |
| 2014-2016 | De Ateliers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 2011 |
Chelsea College of Art, London, England |
| 2007 |
The University of Reading School of Arts and Communication, Berkshire, England |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2025 | Machine Boys, Canal Projects, New York NY, USA |
| 2023 | Plateau - Interwoven Histories, Galerie Ursula Walter, Dresden, Germany |
| 2021 |
Plateau, Secession, Vienna, Austria Plateau, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, Germany |
| 2018 |
Power Man, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 2014 | GoetheOnMain project space, Goethe-Institut, Johannesburg, South Africa |
Group Exhibitions
| 2025 |
The Gatherers, MoMA PS1, New York NY, USA Shelf Life, Trautwein Herleth, Berlin, Germany |
| 2024 |
The Miraculous Arms, François Ghebaly, Los Angeles CA, USA Foreigners Everywhere, Venice Biennale, Italy Sous la terre, les dragons, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefo, France |
| 2023 |
Who Are We if Not Nature, M.Bassy, Hamburg, Germany |
| 2022 |
A Different Now is Close Enough to Exhale on You, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany The Show is Over, South London Gallery, England Identity not proven, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, NEUES MUSEUM, Nürnberg and Museum Gunzenhauser Chemnitz, Germany Penumbra, Fondazione in between Art Film, Ospedaletto and Church of Santa Maria dei Derelitti, Venice, Italy |
| 2021 |
Rotary Contemporary Art Prize, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany Scratching the Surface, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany |
| 2020 |
Shoreline movements, Taipei Biennial 2020 Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany |
| 2019 |
ars viva 2020, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany |
| 2018 |
64th Robert Flaherty Seminar, Syracuse, New York NY, USA MANJAR, Solar dos Abacaxis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| 2017 |
Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, Faena Forum, Miami Beach and Buenos Aires |
| 2016 |
Potlatch, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Arbeitsstipendium für bildende Kunst, Hamburg Kunsthaus, Germany (shortlisted) VISIO, Outside the Black Box, Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival, Florence, Italy Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Switzerland Marl Medienkunst-Preise, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Germany (shortlisted) Dey your lane!: Lagos variations, Bozar, Brussels, Belgium |
| 2014 |
New Participants, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Maison des arts George et Claude Pompidou, Cajarc, France |
Selected Screenings and Festivals
| 2025 |
Machine Boys, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark, 14th January – 9th March Machine Boys, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Unsettled Grounds, Monangambee, Lagos, G.A.S. Foundation, Nigeria |
| 2024 |
13th Avant-Garde Film Festival, Athens, Greece Recontres Inernationales Paris/Berlin, France Machine Boys, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland Machine Boys, VIENNALE, Vienna, Austria Machine Boys, IDFA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Machine Boys, La Roche-sur-Yon International Film Festival, France Machine Boys, 62nd New York Film Festival, New York NY, USA Notes on Air, Salt Beyoğlu Forum, Istanbul, Turkey Sole Luna Doc Film Festival, Palermo, Italy Machine Boys, World Premiere, Visions du Réel, Nyon, Switzerland |
| 2023 |
History is not the past, Wolf Cinema, Berlin, Germany Double Feature, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany |
| 2022 |
Plateau – Another Eye series, Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Germany Penumbra Expanded, MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy Plateau, Starr Cinema, Tate Modern, London, England Visions du Réel, Nyon, Switzerland |
| 2021 |
Black is not a Colour, Kunsthalle Schirn, Frankfurt, Germany |
| 2020 |
KunstBewusst x Afrika Film Festival, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany From Soil, Sand, and Salt Crystals: Films and Natural Processes, University of Chicago IL, USA |
| 2018 |
An Evening with Karimah Ashadu, Modern Mondays series, MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA Affinities or The Weight of Cinema, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA Frameless series, Munich, Germany 54th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan MI, USA VIDEOFORMES International Digital Arts Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France |
| 2015 |
Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Prague, Czech Republic EUROVIDEO Festival, Liege, Belgium Does Not Equal, W139 Space for contemporary art, Amsterdam Triangle Gallery, Chelsea College of Art, London, England |
| 2014 |
New Participants, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento, Buenos Aires, Argentina Athens Video Art Festival, Athens, Greece Split Film Festival, Croatia |
Selected Fellowships and Residencies
| 2021 |
Abigail R. Cohen Fellow - Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, Paris, France |
| 2020 |
Fogo Island, Canada Chrysalis fellowship, Media City Film Festival, Ontario, Canada |
| 2018 - 2020 |
Edith Breckwoldt Foundation - Studio fellowship, Künstlerhaus FRISE, Hamburg, Germany |
| 2019 |
Künstlerhaus Edenkoben, Germany |
| 2016 |
Association Ferme-Asile, Sion, Switzerland |
| 2014 |
GoetheonMain, Goethe-Institut, Johannesburg, South Africa |
Grants and Commissions
| 2024 |
Machine Boys, Fondazione in between Art Film, Italy Moin Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Germany |
| 2022 |
Fine arts project funding, Department for Culture and Media, Hamburg, Germany |
| 2021 |
Plateau, Film commission, Fondazione In Between Art Film, Italy ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius scholarship, Hamburg, Germany |
| 2020 |
Saltmine Script development grant, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig Holstein Travel fellowship, Neue Kunst in Hamburg Production grant, Hamburg Kulturstiftung Publication grant, Hamburg Behörde für Kultur und Medien (in association with Edith Breckwoldt Foundation) |
Public Collections
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The Art Institute of Chicago, USA Akeroyd Collection, London, England Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany FRAC Corsica, France FRAC des pays de la Loire, France Fondazione in between Art Film, Italy Federal Collection of Contemporary Art, Germany MoMA The Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA Fonds Municipal d’Art Contemporain de la Ville de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland |
Awards
| 2024 |
Silver Lion for a Promising Young Participant in the International Exhibition, 60th Venice Biennale, Italy |
| 2023 |
Longlisted – Film London Jarman Award, London, England |
| 2022 |
Prize of the Boetterstrasse in Bremen, Germany Longlisted – Film London Jarman Award, London, England |
| 2021 |
Shortlisted - Wi Di Mimba Wi : The AKB & SAVVY Contemporary Commission Prize, Germany Longlisted - Preis der National Galerie, Germany |
| 2020 |
Contemporary art prize, Rotary Club Bonn, Novara and Strasbourg, Germany |
| 2019 |
ars viva prize, Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft, Berlin Nominated - Video Art Production Award, Hans Nefken Foundation-Arco, Madrid, Spain |
| 2015 |
Video Innovation Prize, EUROVIDEO Festival, Belgium |