Born in Uganda, Currently working in Rotterdam

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Ayo's artistic practice predominantly consists of research based 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 (hi)stories.

Residency

2021:  Triangle France- Astérides, Marseilles, France

Education 

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

2012: BBA, International School of Business & École Supérieure de Commerce, Montpellier, France 

Grants + Commissions + Awards

2020​

  • WdKA Master Research Award 

  • Putsebocht Award

  • African Culture Fund

2019​

  • Stichting Vivace

2018

  • KLA Public Art

2016 - 2017

  • ArtEZ Academic Merit scholarship 

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Selected Exhibitions & *Screening

2020​

  • Print and Play Exhibition,  curated by Marieke van den Belt and Thieu Custers, Boijmans Hillevliet, Rotterdam, NL

  • *A house of Many Parts, curated by Lucas Morin, Goethe Institute, Bangkok, Thailand

  •  *Forthcoming; Ikoce, Open Air film Screening, Locations in Kampala & Apac (tba), UG

  • Modern Day Griots and Tapped Train Conversations, (Duo), Expoplu Experiment, Curated by Fenne Saedt, Expoplu Art Centre, NL

  •  Daybed (Solo) Via Via Salon, curated by KONTRA Rotterdam, NL

  •  Melkweg Expo & Nest  Call for Graduates exhibition, The Hague & Amsterdam, NL

  • * We are Living Monuments, 66th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, GR 

  • Open Studios,  Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, NL

 

2019​

  • *Pulp Puppets, Focal Point Gallery, Twenty one Southend-on-sea, UK

  • Your Voice Matters, Museum Arnhem at De Kerk, group show curated by Mirjam Westen, Arnhem, NL

  • *Ba-dum-pssh, The Burden of representation and Affect, LocatieZ, Den Haag, NL

  • Open Studios, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, NL

 

2018                                     ​​​

  • Off the record, KLA public art, Kampala, UG

  • The Gathering, Participatory event, Entebbe, UG

  • How art thou? Cultuur op Campus, Radboud University, Nijmegen, NL

2017

  • Voicing Entebbe participatory event, De gildekamp, Nijmegen, NL

  • Lok Kede Kom A, Performance, Patty Morgan, Amsterdam, NL

  • Lok Kede Kom A, Performance, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, NL

  • Rebirth, De Vasim, Nijmegen,NL

  • De Gildekamp, Bibliotheek Zwaneveld, Nijmegen, NL

  • Myel Ba Performance, Art gallery Het Klooster, Tiel, NL

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Artist Talk 

2019​

  • The body as ground for belonging, Studium generale ArtEZ & Honour's program, Zwolle

2018

  • Legacy: An Artist and literary Panel discussion organized byWritivism in collaboration with KLA ART, the Square, Kampala.

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Other related experience

2019

  • Speaking with Others - An Interview with Pussy Riot, APRIA digital publication, ArtEZ. Read article here 

2018

  • Performance, Is my body public? Alicia Framis, Juana De Aizpuru gallery, Madrid & Upstream gallery, Amsterdam.

  • Studium Generale ArtEZ podcast contributor about diversity in art practices and institutions.

 Publication & Press

2020​

2019

  • Twaalf Vrouwen Een Stem, Gelderlander Pg. 46

  • Alle Vrouwen Een Stem, Nieuwe Veluwe  Pg. 11

  • Trendbeheer

2018

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