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The Temple
2021
installation designed by Grace Ndiritu featuring works by
Armando D. Cosmos, Tuareg, 2021
Unknown maker, Bear Jug, 1740–60
Unknown maker, Loving Cup, 1770
Vivian Lynn, Caryatid, 1986
Charlotte Johannesson, Each Is a Universe, 2018
Unknown maker, Knight Jug, 1250–1300.
Our Silver City, 2094
installation view:
Nottingham Contemporary, 2021–22.
Photo © Stuart Whipps.

The Temple
2021
installation designed by Grace Ndiritu featuring works by
Armando D. Cosmos, Tuareg, 2021
Unknown maker, Bear Jug, 1740–60
Unknown maker, Loving Cup, 1770
Vivian Lynn, Caryatid, 1986
Charlotte Johannesson, Each Is a Universe, 2018
Unknown maker, Knight Jug, 1250–1300.
Our Silver City, 2094
installation view:
Nottingham Contemporary, 2021–22.
Photo © Stuart Whipps.

Plant Theatre for Plant People
Installation view:
British Art Show 9, 2021-22
Wolverhampton Art Gallery
A Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition organised in collaboration with galleries across the cities of Aberdeen, Wolverhampton, Manchester and Plymouth.
Photo © Stuart Whipps.

Plant Theatre for Plant People
Installation view:
British Art Show 9, 2021-22
Wolverhampton Art Gallery
A Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition organised in collaboration with galleries across the cities of Aberdeen, Wolverhampton, Manchester and Plymouth.
Photo © Stuart Whipps.

Women’s Strike: Healing The Museum
2021
Installation view:
Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, 2021

The Healing of America
> > essay commissioned by art journal Fillip, Vancouver

Installation view:
The Power of my Hands, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, 2021
Left:
Holy Mountain (The Golden Hat & The Egyptian Dress)
2015
resin, printed textile
Right:
Holy Mountain (Kimono)
Kimono, cotton and hand painting
150 x 170 cm

Holy Mountain (The Golden Hat & The Egyptian Dress)
2015
resin, printed textile
Installation view: The Power of my Hands, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, 2021

Installation view:
The Ark
The Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK
2019

Installation view:
The Ark
The Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK
2019

A Therapeutic Townhall Meeting:
Healing the Museum
2016
curated by Dora García, Mathilde Villeneuve and Alexandra Baudelot
Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Paris
2016

Lion
2015-2020
mixed media
12 x 15 cm

Post-Hippie Pop-Abstraction Drawing
2015-2020
mixed media
40 x 50 cm
EDUCATION / RESIDENCIES:
2022/2023 SMAK, artists in residency in the musuem, Belgium
2020 SEEDS British Council & Artscatalyst residency, Patagonia
2018 -2019 COVERSLUT© Manoeuvre, Ghent, Belgium
2017-2018 Thalielab, Brussels, Belgium
2017 Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Paris
2014-2015 Galveston Artist Residency (GAR), Texas
2014 MACBA, Barcelona & L’appartment 22, Morocco – Residency
2013 International Residence Recollets, Paris
2007 Gulbenkian & RSA Residency, BBC Natural History Dept, UK
2004-2006 Delfina Studios, UK Studio Award, London
1998-2000 De Ateliers, Post-grad Residency, Amsterdam
1995-1998 BA (Hons) Textile Art, Winchester School of Art UK
SOLO EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES:
2021 LABOUR: BIRTH OF A NEW MUSEUM (solo performance), Nottingham Contemporary
2021 GHENT: HOW TO LIVE TOGETHER (social practice project with archive) Kunsthal Gent, Belgium
2021 WOMEN’S STRIKE: HEALING THE MUSEUM (solo performance), Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris
2019 SWEATSHOP (solo exhibition), INDA Gallery Budapest
2019 THE ARK (solo exhibition), Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK
2019 HEALING THE MUSEUM (solo performance) S.M.A.K. & M.S.K. Belgium
2019 HEALING THE MUSEUM (solo performance) Goethe-Institut & Africa Museum, Tervuren, Belgium
2019 A QUEST FOR MEANING (solo exhibition): – AQFM Vol. 9 – Tatjana Pieters Gallery, Ghent
2018/2019 COVERSLUT© FASHION & ECONOMIC PROJECT (research project) Freelands Foundation, London (2019), Minus One, Ghent (2019); Poppositions artfair, Brussels (2019); Eastside Projects, UK (2018); De Koer, Ghent (2018 & 2019), collection available at CAG Vancouver (2018), Wiels Art Centre (2019) & Bergen Kunsthall (2020/2021)
2018 A MEAL FOR MY ANCESTORS: HEALING THE MUSEUM, (solo performance) Thalielab Art Foundation, Brussels
2017 THE ARK: CENTER FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY EXPERIMENTATION (research project), designed by Grace Ndiritu, organized by Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Paris; with collaborations with participants.
2017 DREAMING THE MUSEUM BACK TO LIFE: THE INNER LIFE OF OBJECTS – (solo performance), Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona; MSK Ghent, Belgium and Frac Lorraine, France
2016 A THERAPEUTIC TOWNHALL MEETING: HEALING THE MUSEUM (solo performance), Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Paris
2015 A RETURN TO NORMALCY: BIRTH OF A NEW MUSEUM (survey), Reid Gallery, Glasgow School of Art (Turner Prize Season)
2015 A QUEST FOR MEANING (solo exhibition):- AQFM VOL. 5: Mindless Optimism, Paris Photo LA
2015 THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS: HEALING THE MUSEUM (solo performance), Galveston, Texas
2014 A QUEST FOR MEANING (solo exhibition):- AQFM VOL. 4 Post-Expeditions, L’appartment 22, Rabat, Morocco
2014 A QUEST FOR MEANING (solo exhibition):- AQFM VOL. 2: Trash, La Ira De Dios, Buenos Aires
2014 SPRING RITES: BIRTH OF A NEW MUSEUM (solo performance), Museum Modern of Art Warsaw
2013 FOR A SHAMANIC CINEMA (solo performance), Centre Pompidou, Paris
2013 WOMEN WHO RUNS WITH WOLVES (solo performance), Musee Chasse & Nature, Paris
2011 THE NIGHTINGALE, (solo exhibition) Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Wales, UK
2011 GRACE NDIRITU, (solo film survey) ICA Film/Video Survey, London
2009 MY BLOOD SELF, (solo film survey) ArtProjx Presents, Prince Charles Cinema, London
2007 RESPONSIBLE TOURISM/STILL LIFE, (solo exhibition) Chisenhale Gallery, London
2006 UNTITLED RESISTANCE, (solo exhibition) Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea, Wales
2006 STILL LIFE The Black Box, (solo booth) ARCO Art Fair (solo booth)
2006 GRACE NDIRITU, (solo exhibition) Vacio 9 Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2005 TIME, (solo exhibition) Delfina Studios, London, UK
2005 GRACE NDIRITU (solo exhibition), 51st Venice Biennale, Ikon Gallery & Nuova Icona, Italy
2005 THE NIGHTINGALE, (solo exhibition) Ikon Gallery Birmingham, UK
FILM SCREENINGS (selected):
Black Beauty – one channel cinema projection
including film festivals – 32nd FID Marseille, 16th Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival (2021),
Black Beauty: For A Shamanic Cinema – two channel film installation
71st Berlinale film festival Forum Expanded
Coventry Biennal (2021) , Herbert Art Gallery
Black Beauty – screening programs
‘One in the Other’ (2021), Camden Arts Centre, curator Jareh Das
‘Edge of Belief’ (2021), Close up Centre, curator Emily Wright
COMMISSIONS:
2021 PLANT THEATRE FOR PLANT PEOPLE – Performance Commission – British Art Show 9 (2021)
2021 BLACK BEAUTY one and two channel film installation – Kunstencentrum Vooruit, Belgium; Coventry Biennale of Contemporary Art and Nottingham Contemporary Arts Center.
2019 THE LUBUMBASHI TAPESTRIES – Biennale Lubumbashi, Congo
2018 ‘END OF TIME’ AQFM Vol. 8 – large 8 window newspaper installation, CAG Vancouver
2018 A MEAL FOR MY ANCESTORS, performance, Thalielab, Brussels, Belgium
2017 THE ARK: CENTER FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY EXPERIMENTATION, Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers
2015 HOLOTROPIC BREATHING FOR THE MASSES, performance film, Glasgow School of Art
2014 AQFM (Vol.2) photographic installation, Arts Council England & British Council
2014 AQFM (Vol.1) photographic installation, MACBA, Barcelona
2010 A WEEK IN THE NEWS, film, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
2007 NATURAL DISASTERS, film, Situations and RSA, UK
2007 RESPONSIBLE TOURISM/STILL LIFE, film Chisenhale Gallery, London
2006 UNTITLED RESISTANCE, film, Glynn Vivian Gallery, Wales
COLLECTIONS:
The British Council, UK
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
MuZee, Oostende, Belgium
Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
The Walther Collection, Germany and New York
King Mohammed VI, Morocco
Ulrich Museum, Kansas, USA
Private Collections in USA, Mexico and Europe
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2021 British Art Show 9, 2021-22, Aberdeen Art Gallery. A Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition organised in collaboration with galleries across the cities of Aberdeen, Wolverhampton, Manchester and Plymouth.
2021 Our Silver City 2094, (trio exhibition with Céline Condorelli, Femke Herregraven) Nottingham Contemporary
2021 Coventry Biennal – Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry
2020 Living Forgiving Remembering, Museum Arhem, Netherlands
2020 Trance-Action, Muzee Ostende, Belgium
2020 Everything Passes Except The Past, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino
2019 The Road is Clear, In de Ruimte, Ghent, Belgium
2019 The Coming Community with Andrea Zittel & Karrabing Collective, Freelands Foundation, London
2019 Lubumbashi Biennale, Congo
2019 Gallery Galerie Galeria, Jack Barrett Gallery, New York (Nada Artfair)
2018 The Blue Hour, Capture Photography Festival, Contemporary Art Gallery (CAG), Vancouver
2017 Home Bodies: Away Team (Part 1), Blue Roof Studio, Los Angeles
2017 In the Peaceful Dome, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
2015 Island Time, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH)
2015 Galveston Artist Residency Gallery, Texas
2014 MAC International Art Prize, Belfast – (AQFM VOL. 3)
2014 New Africa, Kulte Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco
2014 Hide & Seek, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2014 Before Our Eyes, (featuring AQFM VOL. 1) MACBA, Barcelona
2013 Worldwide Africa: Fashioning Personhood, Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA)
2012 Shifting Cards, Art Cade, Marseilles, France
2012 Textiles, Kunst Schloss Untergröningen (KISS), Germany
2012 African Photography, For Whose Eyes?, Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial, USA
2012 Synchronicity II, curated by On The Roof, Tiwani Gallery, London
2012 COTTON: Global Threads, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, UK
2011 9th Bamako Encounters, African Photography Bienniale, Mali
2011 Veiled, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, Canada
2011 Synchronicity I, curated by On The Roof, Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris
2011 5×5 CASTELLO International Art Prize, Spain (nominated by Marlene Dumas)
2011 Pattern ID Kemper Museum, Kansas, USA
2010 Addis Foto Fest 2010, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
2010 Events of the Self: Portraiture & Self Identity, Walther Collection, Germany
2010 Curtain Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
2010 Poetics of Colour, Centro Jose Guerrero, Spain
2010 Like Love Part Two/Action, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
2010 Pattern ID, Akron Art Museum, Ohio, USA
2009 Identity: An Imagined State, CCA Lagos, Nigeria
2009 Dress Codes: Third Triennial, International Center of Photography, New York
2009 8th Dakar Biennale , IFA Gallery Berlin & Stuttgart
2009 The Fabric of Identity, Brancolinigrimaldi Gallery, Rome
2009 Code Share CAC Vilnius, Lithuania
2008 I am Making Art (The Artist’s body), Centro Huarte de Arte, Spain
2008 Essential Art of African Textiles’, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2008 The Poetics of Cloth’ Grey Art Gallery, New York
2008 PrixArs Electronica, Linz, Austria
2008 Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable, UK
2008 8th Dakar Biennale, Dakar, Senegal
2008 Flow, Studio Museum Harlem, New York
2007 Do you see…’ Macagin, Belgrade, Serbia
2007 Video Brasil 16th, Sesc Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2007 Untitled Resistance’ LOOP Video Art Festival Barcelona
2007 Video Killed… Domus DA2, Salamanca
2007 Meme Heure…Abbaye de Maubuisson, Paris
2007 I am Making Art (The Artist’s body) Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva,
2005 You Made Me Love You, Arnolfini, FACT, CCA Glasgow, Baltic
2004 Perspective Art Prize, Ormeau Bath Gallery, Belfast
2004 Mostyn Open, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Wales, UK
2002 Early Works, De Ateliers, Amsterdam
2000 Buren Van Abbe Museum, Netherlands
2000 Telenic Brussels 2000, Belgium
2000 Kunst 2000, Zurich ICA Fair, Switzerland
2000 To Be Announced and Rita McBride , NAK Kunstverein, Aachen,Germany
2000 Arena Workshop and Rita McBride Kunsthalle Baden Baden Germany
1999 Teleo, Television festival Nantes, France
TALKS & LIVE EVENTS:
2021 Experimenter Curators Hub, India
2021 Tate Liverpool & BCU artists talk
2020 COVERSLUT© and Dissent Without Modification booklaunch- De Appel, Amsterdam
2021 Dissent Without Modification booklaunch – A Conversation between Grace Ndiritu and Prem Krishnamurthy, Homecooking NYC
2020 COVERSLUT© – A Conversation between Grace Ndiritu and Scott Elliott, Bergen Book Fair 8
2020 Panel: Who and what is e(valuation) for? Center for Cultural Value, Leeds University
2020 Podcast: Radical Mutations with Edna Bonhomme, HAU Berlin
2020 Interview: The Year of Black Healing, Montez Press Radio, New York
2020 Artists Talk: The Year of Black Healing, cheLA, Buenos Aires
2020 Workshop: Decolonizing The Museum, Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver
2020 Artists Talk: African Awareness Initiative UBC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver
2019 PAY WHAT YOU CAN: THE NEW ART ECONOMY (curated by Grace Ndiritu), Kunsthal Ghent
2019 The Rural Book launch, De Appel, Amsterdam
2019 – From Me to We: Reconfiguring Community, Curators Anonymous #4 with Staci Bu Shea, Grace Ndiritu, Tereza Stejskalová and Jozef Wouters, Le Loge, Brussels
2019 When Decisions Become Art – Kathrin Bohm, Gavin Wade, Grace Ndiritu & Kuba Szreder, Kunstbunker Nuremberg Germany
2019 Workshop: Everything Passes but the Past, Goethe Instuit for Museu Etnologic, Barcelona
2019 Reading Group: Love & The Earth, Beursschouwburg, Brussels
2019 Workshop: (Un)learning habits of Care – Helena Rickett & Grace Ndiritu, Studio Voltaire, London
2019 Teaching week: Healing Justice Workshop, UBC, Vancouver
2019 Reading Group: A History of Resistance with Grace Ndiritu’, Bluecoat, Liverpool
2019 The Rural Assembly, Whitechapel Gallery & Wysing Arts Centre, UK
2019 ‘Grace Ndiritu in conversation with George Clark’ Freelands Foundation, Site Gallery, Sheffield
2019 Intergenerational Project – A Contemplation Workshop, with Grace Ndiritu, Tate Britain, London
2019 VPRO Backlight TV Talk Series: Grace Ndiritu on “Compassion as a solution according to George Monbiot”, Vooruit, Gent
2018 ‘INTERRUPTION: A Psychic Empowerment Ritual for the New Art Economy: Pay What You Can’ as part of the Artist Run Multiverse Summit, Eastside Projects
2018 ‘From the Artists Mouth II’, Melissa Gordon, Grace Ndiritu and Jennifer Tee, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
2018 ‘Reading Group: A History of Resistance with Grace Ndiritu’, Art Catalyst, London
2018 ‘The Ark’, Art Catalyst, London as part of Bloomsbury Festival
2018 Artists Talk, Visual Art Forum, Emily Carr University, Vancouver
2018, ‘The Ark’, Bluecoat , Liverpool, UK
2017 ‘Sens de l’Histoire’, Fondation Ricard, Paris
2017 ‘The Ark’, Eco-nomadic School, Atelier d’Architecture Autogérée (AAA), R-Urban, Paris
2017 ‘Objections’, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona
2015 ‘Curating Conversations’, RCA Inspire Legacy, London
2014 COM Artist Talk, College of the Mainland, Texas
2014, ‘Gestures of Rave’, Conti Museum Buenos Aires
2014 ‘Desert Storm’ (12.45 screening) National TV Channel 2M, Morocco
2014 For a Shamanic Cinema (solo screening), Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
2014 Artists Talk, Haystacks series ‘Rural/Urban’ curated by Kathrin Bohm,
and hosted by Celine Condorelli Studios, London
2013 Artists Talk, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
2013 ‘The Fourth Way’ screening, New Forms Festival, Vancouver, Canada
2013 Panel Discussion, ‘Feminism, War and the Body’, ICA London
2013 Seminar: ‘Something You Should Know’ with Natasa Petrešin-Bachelez, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Elisabeth Lebovici and Patricia Falguières, EHESS, Paris
2012 Artists Talk, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, UK
2011 To Africanize is to Civilize, On The Roof screening, Silencio Club, Paris Photo
2010 Panel Discussion, Addis Foto Fest, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
2010 Panel Discussion, Art and Climate Change, British Council, Addis Ababa
2010 Artists Talk, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
2010 Artists Talk, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK
2010 Artists Talk, Tate Britain, London
2010 Pattern ID, National Public Radio, NPR USA
2009 Late at Tate curated by Max Reinhardt, Tate Britain, London
2009 Second Skins Symposium, INIVA, London
2009 Long Night of African Video Art, Temporare Kunsthalle, Berlin
2009 Do Something Different, screening, International Exhibitionist, Barbican
2009 Artists Talk: Goldsmiths College, London
2008 Hospitalities screening, Tram Festival Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2008 Artists talk FABRICA, Brighton
2008 Re Imagine Kenya, screening Sikkema Jenkins Gallery, New York
2008 The Whole World curator Ian White TANK TV
2008 Do Something Different, slide show International Exhibitionist BARBICAN
2006 RolePlay: screening Tate Britain, Arnolfini Bristol
2006 Artist talk with Jonathan Watkins Director Ikon Gallery UK Glynn Vivian
2006 Artist talk Making Art Work with Keith Piper & Richard Wilson, Suffolk
2004 Performance Strategy and Process,Adrian Piper & DJ Spooky,Arts Admin UK
2004 Resonanace FM 104.4 London
2000 Lost and Found with Chris Dercon, Amsterdam
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
2022 MOUSSE (magazine and online) – ‘The Village People’ by Pablo Larios, January issue #78
2022 THE QUIETUS (online) – ‘Looking Backward From 2094: Nottingham Contemporary Imagines The Future’ by Will Jennings, January 15th
2022 FRIEZE (online) – ‘Our Silver City, 2094’ Envisions Nottingham’s Uncertain Future’ by Aliya Say, 13 January
2022 BOMB – Nonrational Methodologies: Grace Ndiritu Interviewed by Jareh Das, 5 January
2021 ART MONTHLY – ‘Coventry Biennale’, Denise Courcoux, December issue 452
2021 h)ART MAGAZINE (online) – Ghent: How to live together – a conversation with Grace Ndiritu, Pieter Vermeulen
2021 THE GUARDIAN – ‘Fire, flood and frozen goldfish: Our Silver City 2094 reveals Nottingham’s future ‘ review, Adrian Searle, 23 November
2021 MOUSSE (online) – ‘Anywhere, Out of the World: Ruralism and Escape in the New Roaring Twenties’ by Pablo Larios, 5th October
2021 – METROPOLIS M – ‘Makers of Their Own Time: Relational Activism – Aline Bouvy – Simon(e) van Saarloos – Grace Ndiritu,’ Jessica Gysel, issue 3
2021 ART MONTHLY – Grace Ndiritu: Dissent Without Modification – The 1990s’ book review, Hettie Judah, March issue 444
2020 TECHNIQUES & CULTURE – ‘Arts of subversion’ Thomas Golsenne, #74
2020 THE ART NEWSPAPER – ‘Black Lives Matter movement…’, 21 October
2020 TIME MAGAZINE (online) – ‘European Museums Keep Talking…’ Suyin Haynes, 20 October
2020 ELEPHANT MAGAZINE (online) – Profile ‘Grace Ndiritu’ Charlotte Jansen, 25 September
2020 TEXTE ZUR KUNST – ‘Agreeing to Disagree’ Cristina Nord, September pg 153
2020 BOY.BROTHER.FRIEND. – fashion and art magazine – ‘Artists of The Month: Grace Ndiritu’
2020 (h)ART MAGAZINE – ‘ The Summer of Love’, issue #205
2020 Collection Mu.ZEE (online) – ‘Grace Ndiritu, The Lubumbashi Tapestries’ Ilse Roosens, April
2020 BERLIN ART (online) ‘The Year of Black Healing’ Juan José Santos Mateo. 28 February
2020 (h)ART MAGAZINE – ‘ Outlook for 2020’, issue #199
2019 APOLLO MAGAZINE (online) ‘Community spirit’, Samuel Reilly, December
2019 FRIEZE (online) – ‘Is the Countryside the Future of the Art World?’ Tom Jeffreys, 15 November
2019 ART MONTHLY – ‘Grace Ndiritu: The Ark’, Niki Russell, Oct
2019 WALL STREET JOURNAL – ‘A Quest For Meaning Vol 9’, 26 April
2019 (h)ART MAGAZINE – ‘Grace Ndiritu in Ghent’, issue #191
2019 METROPOLIS M – ‘Lateral thinking at 8th Poppositions Brussels’ Domeniek Ruyters, April 25th
2019 COLLECT MAGAZINE ‘British-Kenyan phenomenon Grace Ndiritu’, ed. March
2018 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT, ‘Time travels in Contemporary Art Gallery’s Blue Hour’ April 11th
2018 SCOUT MAGAZINE ‘CAG Feature Exhibition ‘The Blue Hour’ Kicks Off 2018’s Capture Photography Festival’, 23 March
2018 ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST MAGAZINE ‘The house of gallerist Marta Moriarty in Madrid’, 5 Feb
2018 SILENT FRAME, ‘The Brief – interview with Grace Ndiritu’, January 2
2017 FRANCE CULTURE, ‘Le sens de l’Histoire, Grace Ndiritu’, 28 June
2016 AQFM Vol. 4 featuring an essay entitled A Return to Normalcy, Benedetta d’Ettorre, April issue
2015 SCOTTISH ARTS REVIEW, ‘Grace Ndiritu’ Neil Cooper, 23 Nov
2015 GLASGOW HERALD, ‘Turner Art Show’ Jamie Lewis, 19 Sept
2014 HUNGER TV interview -‘About Town’ 13 Nov
2014 APOLLO MAGAZINE 40 Under 40, September
2014 PHAIDON, The 21st Century Art Book, London
2014 ART PAPERS, ‘Before Our Eyes (Barcelona)’ July/August
2014 DIPTYK – Moroccan Art Magazine, ‘New Africa’, nr 23
2013 NKA JOURNAL CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN ART ‘More Native than Tomorrow’ nr32
2012 MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS, ‘Cotton On’, 10 Feb
2011 AFTERIMAGE, ‘Desert Storm’,Caroline Bagenal, Summer Issue
2011 THIRD TEXT,’ Walther Collection’ Vol 25 issue 2
2010 DU Swiss Kulturmagazine ‘Stoffe von Welt’ Oct
2010 FRIEZE ART MAGAZINE ‘Curtain Show’June/Aug
2010 NKA JOURNAL CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN ART ‘Cross-cultural Patterns’nr 24
2009 ART MONTHLY, Third ICP Triennial ‘ Nov
2009 THE GUARDIAN, Preview ‘Late at Tate’ Aug 1
2009 THIRD TEXT, ‘Dak Art 2008’ Vol 22 issue 6
2009 ANTIQUE & ARTS, ‘African Textiles’ Feb 13
2009 EL DIARIO, ‘Celebrar Afroamericana’, Feb 8
2008 NEW YORK TIMES, ‘African Art’ Oct 10
2008 NEW YORK POST‘Textiles & Trunk’ Sept 30
2008 FRIEZE ART MAGAZINE ‘Flow’ June/Sept
2008 VILLAGE VOICE ‘New African Art’ April 29
2008 NEW YORK TIMES, ‘Flow’ April 4
2008 WALL STREET JOURNAL Africa Mar 28
2007 FLASH ART review Eliza Williams July/Sept
2007 LE MONDE, ‘L’art ala recontre ….’ June 25
2007 L’HUMANITE‘L’historie dans …’ June 23
2007 FRIEZE ART MAGAZINE, Review May
2007 LE MATIN BLEU,’Le Corps…Feb 23
2007 SORTIR, ‘Le Corps fait Oeuvre’ 22 Feb
2007 TIME OUT,, Gabriel Coxhead, review Feb 21- 27
2007 ABC The Black Box Nekane Aramburu, Feb 18
2007 EL CULTURAL, David Barro, Feb 15
2007 THE BIG ISSUE, Martin Coomer Feb 12- 18
2007 EL PAIS, ‘Babelia’ Elisa Silio, Feb 10
2007 CONTEMPORARY ART MAGAZINE
2007 Performance Issue profile by Eliza Williams
2005 TIME OUT, Sarah Kent, review Nov 23-30
2005 THE METRO, Art Review Dec 1 London
2005 ART IN AMERICA Venice Biennale 09 Issue
2005 ART MONTHLY, Editorial, July/August
2005 KUNST BEELD, Venice Biennale nr 07
2005 THE TABLET ‘Fakes & Gems…’ 18 June
2005 THE METRO, A.L. ‘Grace Ndiritu’
2004 CIRCA, Cristin Leach ‘ Perspective’ issue 110
2004 A-N Magazine, Gemma Tipton’ Perspective’
2002 Het Parool, Arjan Reinders, ‘Ateliers.’
2001 De Telegraaf, Paola Van de Velde ‘Buren’
2001 BK Informatie 1 ‘Buren’
2001 Tubelight 13 , Marieke Van Hal ‘Buren’
2000 Eindhoven Dag, Angelique Spaninks, ‘D&G’
1998 IDFX Magazine ‘University Challenges’
1998 Daily Echo ’Winchester Degree Show’
CATALOGUES & PUBLICATIONS:
2021 Everything Passes Except The Past, Goethe Instiut, Belgium
2020 The Power of Hands, Musee de Ville, Paris
2019 Freelands Foundation: The Coming Community, London
2019 Whitechapel Gallery: Documents of Contemporary Art: The Rural, MIT Press
2018 Home Bodies: Away Team, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City
2017 Learn to Act ed Doina Petrescu, Kathrin Böhm & Tom James
2017 Manufactories of Caring Space – Time, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona & MSK Ghent, Belguim
2015 Island Time, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH)
2015 Before Your Eyes, MACBA, Barcelona
2014 The 21st Century Art Book, Phaidon, London
2014 New Africa, Kulte Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco
2014 Before Our Eyes, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
2013 Worldwide Africa: Fashioning Personhood, Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA)
2012 African Textiles Today, Chris Spring, British Museum Publications
2012 African Photography, For Whose Eyes, Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial, USA
2011 9th Bamako Encounters, African Photography Bienniale, Mali
2011 Fashion Drawing, Michelle Bryant, Lawrence King Publications, New York
2010 The Global African Project, Museum of Arts and Design, New York
2010 A World of Art, 6th Edition, Henry M. Sayre, Prentice Hall
2010 Events of the Self: Portraiture & Self Identity, The Walther Collection, Germany
2010 Pattern ID, Akron Art Museum, Ohio, USA
2009 Identity: An Imagined State, CCA Lagos, Nigeria
2009 Contemporary African Art since 1980, Okwui Enwezor, Chika Okeke-Agulu
2009 Dress Codes: Third Triennial, International Center of Photography, New York
2008 ‘Essential Art of African Textiles’Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2008 ‘The Poetics of Cloth’ Grey Art Gallery, New York
2008 8th, Dakar Biennale, Senegal
2008 Flow, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
2007 Video Brasil 16th, Sesc Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2007 Loop Video Art Festival, Barcelona
2007 Black Moving Cube ,Tate Britain, Arnolifini
2005 Grace Ndiritu 51st Venice Biennale: Nuova Icona & Ikon Gallery
2004 ‘Perspective’ Ormeau Baths Gallery Belfast
2004 Mostyn Open, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Wales
2002 Early Works, De Ateliers, Amsterdam
PUBLISHED ARTIST WRITINGS:
2021 ‘Healing The Museum & A Ways of Seeing: A New Museum for Planet Earth’ Gropius Bau Journal
2021 ‘Dissent Without Modification’, Bergen Kunsthall – non-fiction book
2020 ‘The Healing of America’ commissioned by FILLIP, Vancouver
2019 ‘Healing The Museum & A Ways of Seeing: A New Museum for Planet Earth’, AFRIKADAA ‘ #12
2018 Almond Joy COVERSLUT© issue #1
2017 ‘A Nice Crowd’, Bryan Washington, THE PARIS REVIEW, 24 April
2017 ‘Healing The Museum’, MANUFACTORIES OF CARING SPACE -TIME, Fundació Antoni Tàpies
2017 ‘Healing The Museum’, LE JOURNAL – Psychotropification de la societe, Labos d’Aubervilliers
2015 ‘Interview with Marvin Gaye Chetwynd’, AQFM Vol.3 Periodical
2014 ‘Interview with Alice Peinado’, AQFM Vol.2 Periodical
2014 ‘The End of History’ essay, AQFM Vol.1 Periodical
2013 ‘Responsible Tourism’, ANIMAL SHELTER JOURNAL (issue 3), MIT Press /Semiotext(e)
2004 ‘C++ The Basic Language of Love’, (self-published in the non-fiction novella)
2002 ‘TV’, EARLY WORKS (catalogue), De Ateliers, Netherlands
1999 ‘The Groove’, METROPOLIS M (Dutch Art Magazine), Netherlands
1994 ‘A Year in the Life of Grace Ndiritu’, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
BURSARIES/GRANTS:
2020 ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND, project grant
2020 SEEDS British Council Argentina
2020 ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND, project grant
2019 VLAANDEREN, project grant
2017 FLUXUS, funding for The Ark project in Paris
2014 BRITISH COUNCIL & ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND, Artists International Award Fund
2012 OPPENHEIM-JOHN DOWNES MEMORIAL TRUST
2009 ARTS COUNCIL LONDON, Grants for Arts
2008 BRITISH COUNCIL, Grants for Arts
2007 ARTS COUNCIL LONDON, Grants for Arts
2006 ARTS COUNCIL LONDON, Grants for Arts
2005 ARTS COUNCIL LONDON, Grants for Arts
2005 ARTS COUNCIL WM, Grants for Arts
2005 BRITISH COUNCIL, Grants for Artists,
2004 ARTS COUNCIL WM, Grants for Arts
2004 ARTS ADMIN Early Career Bursary, London
2002 FONDS BKVB, Netherlands
2001 FONDS BKVB, Netherlands
AWARD/PRIZES/NOMINATIONS:
2014 40 Under 40, Apollo Art Magazine
2014 MAC International Art Prize, Belfast (nomination)
2011 5×5 CASTELLO International Art Prize, Spain(nominated by Marlene Dumas)
2009 1st prize CENTRE FOR ART & NATURE Landscape Video Prize, Spain
2008 WINNER DAKAR BIENNALE Thamigidi Art Prize
2004 WINNER PERSPECTIVE Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
TEACHING & WORKSHOPS:
2021 De Monfort, Leicester
2021 LUCA Fine Art dept, Brussels
2021 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
2021 Zurich University of the Arts
2021 KASK – STUK Masterclass Leuven
2021 De Ateliers, Amsterdam
2020 HBK Klasse Eli Cortinas, University of Fine Arts, Braunschweig, Germany
2020 ARTEZ, MA Fashion, Netherlands
2020 KASK Curating Dept, Ghent
2020 Sint Lucas, Advanced MA, Antwerp
2019 KASK Graphic Design MFA, Ghent
2019 Goldsmiths Curating MFA Dept, London
2019 UBC, Vancouver: Critical + Creative Social Justice Studies
2019 TALM-Angers: Ecole d’Art et de Design
2016 Parsons College of Design, Paris
2015 College of Mainland, Texas
2015 Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
2012 Goldsmiths University, London