Born in Uganda, Currently working in the Netherlands
Ayo's practice consists of extensive research projects which shape shift into film, sculpture and performance. Her projects often start from the personal and specific; favouring relation-making with various bodies and geographies with whom she seeks out counter narratives, fictions, pleasurable and uncomfortable ways of (re)telling histories. Recent thematics in Ayo's work explore intangible forms of cultural heritage and informal knowledge production held by unofficial bodies.
Residency
2022: Amant Foundation,New York, USA
2021: Triangle France- Astérides, Marseilles, France
Education
2018-2020: MA Fine Art (Cum Laude) Piet Zwart Institute, WdKA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2016-2017: BA Fine Art (Honour's Program) Propedeuse, ArtEZ Institute of the Arts, Arnhem, The Netherlands
2008-2012: BBA, International School of Business & École Supérieure de Commerce, Montpellier, France
Grants + Awards
2021
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Guido Huysmans Young African Film Maker Award (Nominee)
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Mondriaan Stipend for Emerging Artists (Werkbijdrage Jong Talent)
2020
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African Culture Fund
2019
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Stichting Vivace project grant
2018
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KLA Public Art Commission
2016 - 2017
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ArtEZ Academic Merit scholarship
Selected Exhibitions & * Film Screening
2022
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A Door Ajar, Singing, Shimmer, Rotterdam,NL (forthcoming)
2021
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*25th Afrika Film festival, Leuven, BE
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Ateliers Portes Ouvertes, Triangle-Asterides, Marseilles, FR
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Material Context, Het Archief, Rotterdam, NL, curated by Nathalie Haartjes & Danny Giles.
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*Tent Online Cinema, Tent Rotterdam, NL
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On Display, Print& Play Group Exhibition, curated by Marieke van den Belt & Thieu Custers
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*Possessed, European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, GR
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Unbound Anthologies, a two person exhibition with Katrina Niebergal, Available and the Rat, Rotterdam
2020
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Print and Play group exhibition, curated by Marieke van den Belt and Thieu Custers, Boijmans Hillevliet, Rotterdam, NL
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*A house of Many Parts, curated by Lucas Morin, Goethe Institute, Bangkok, Thailand
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Modern Day Griots and Tapped Train Conversations, (a two person exhibition with Kateřina Gabriel Konarovská), Expoplu Experiment, Curated by Fenne Saedt, Expoplu Art Centre, NL
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Daybed (Solo) Weelde, curated by KONTRA Rotterdam, NL
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Melkweg Expo & Nest Call for Graduates exhibition, The Hague & Amsterdam, NL
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* We are Living Monuments, 66th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, GR
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Open Studios, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, NL
2019
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*Pulp Puppets, Focal Point Gallery, Twenty one Southend-on-sea, UK
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Your Voice Matters, Museum Arnhem at De Kerk, group show curated by Mirjam Westen, Arnhem, NL
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*Ba-dum-pssh, The Burden of representation and Affect, LocatieZ, Den Haag, NL
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Open Studios, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, NL
2018
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Off the record, KLA public art curated by 32 Degrees East/Ugandan Arts Trust, Kampala, UG
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The Gathering, Participatory event, Entebbe, UG
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How art thou? Cultuur op Campus, Radboud University, Nijmegen, NL
2017
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Voicing Entebbe participatory event, De gildekamp, Nijmegen, NL
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Lok Kede Kom A, Performance, Patty Morgan, Amsterdam, NL
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Lok Kede Kom A, Performance, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
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Rebirth, De Vasim, Nijmegen,NL
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Myel Ba Performance, Art gallery Het Klooster, Tiel, NL
Artist Talk
2021
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Tip Off#5, Melkweg Expo, Amsterdam
2019
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The body as ground for belonging, Studium generale ArtEZ & Honour's program, Zwolle
2018
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Legacy: An Artist and literary Panel discussion organized byWritivism in collaboration with KLA ART, the Square, Kampala.
Publication & Press
2021
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Don't touch, publication
2020
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Frames of Loss and Memory, An Interview with Christine Ayo. Art for social justice, Tijschrijft Kunstlicht
2019
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Speaking with Others - An Interview with Pussy Riot, APRIA digital publication, ArtEZ. Read article here
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Twaalf Vrouwen Een Stem, Gelderlander Pg. 46
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Alle Vrouwen Een Stem, Nieuwe Veluwe Pg. 11
2018
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Art Monthly UK, November issue
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Studium Generale ArtEZ podcast contributor about diversity in art practices and institutions.