Education
Ayo is a Ugandan born artist currently based in The Netherlands. Her work consists of extensive research projects that shape shift into film, sculpture and performance. Ayo’s practice is based on a desire to seek out counter narratives, and to explore both pleasurable as well as uncomfortable ways of re-telling histories. Recent projects unpack intangible forms of cultural heritage and informal knowledge production held by unofficial bodies.
Residency
2022: Amant Foundation, New York, USA (forthcoming)
2021: Triangle - Astérides, Marseilles, France
Education
2018-2020: MA Fine Art (Cum Laude) Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy, 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
Selected Exhibitions & * Film Screening
2022
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Municipal Art Acquisitions, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL (Forthcoming)
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Unfair22, Gashouder, Amsterdam, Solo presentation,NL (forthcoming)
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Heks, Artphy, Groningen, NL (forthcoming)
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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
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
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.
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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.