Born in Uganda, Currently working in Rotterdam
Ayo's artistic practice predominantly consists of research projects which shape shift into film, sculpture, sound 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.
Residency
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 + Commissions + Awards
2021
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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
2018
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KLA Public Art
2016 - 2017
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ArtEZ Academic Merit scholarship
Selected Exhibitions & *Screening
2021
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(Forthcoming) *Tent Online Cinema, Tent Rotterdam, NL
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(Forthcoming)*European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, GR
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(Forthcoming)Print& Play Group Exhibition, A structure of Feeling curated by Marieke van den Belt & Thieu Custers
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Unbound Anthologies, a duo 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 duo 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, 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
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.
Other related experience
2019
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Speaking with Others - An Interview with Pussy Riot, APRIA digital publication, ArtEZ. Read article here
2018
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Performance, Is my body public? Alicia Framis, Juana De Aizpuru gallery, Madrid & Upstream gallery, Amsterdam.
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Studium Generale ArtEZ podcast contributor about diversity in art practices and institutions.
Publication & Press
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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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