Ibrahim Mahama CV Nov 2022

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IBRAHIM MAHAMA

1987 Born in Tamale, Ghana


Lives and works in Accra, Kumasi and Tamale, Ghana

Education

2013 MFA Painting and Sculpture, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and
Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

2010 BFA Painting, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi,
Ghana

Solo exhibitions

2022 Garden of Scars, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam


VOLI-NI, Eataly Art House - E.ART.H, Verona, Italy
The memory of love, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France
The memory of love, MASSIMODECARLO Pièce Unique, Paris
Half of a Yellow Sun, White Cube, Hong Kong

2021 Lazarus, White Cube Bermondsey, London


As the Void, Vali and Voli, Apalazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy
VANISHING POINTS. 2014-2020, Reiter Galleries, Leipzig, Germany
57 Forms of Liberty, The High Line, New York
Leaves of Grass. 2012-2021. 2021. Fisk University, Little Theater, Nashville, TN

2020 In-Between the World and Dreams, University of Michigan Museum of Art
LETTERS FROM THE VOID, White Cube Online

2019 Living Grains, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome


Parliament of Ghosts, The Whitworth, the University of Manchester, Manchester
International Festival
Labour of Many, Norval Foundation, Steenberg, Cape Town
A Friend, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Caselli Daziari, Porta Venezia – Piazza
Guglielmo Oberdan, Milan
2018 0.10 Reloaded, Avantgarde 2018, Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich
Kunst & Kohle: Coal Market, Schloss Strünkede, Emschertal-Museum Herne,
Stadtische Galerie, Germany
A straight line through the Carcass of History, 1918-1945, daadgalerie, Berlin
Dal-Baħar Madwarha: A straight line through the Carcass of History, Pixkerija,
Valletta, Malta
In Dependence, Apalazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy
On Monumental Silences, Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp, Belgium

2017 Non-Orientable Nkansa, Miami Design District, Miami


Inside the White Cube: Fragments, White Cube Bermondsey, London

2016 Fracture, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv


Food Distribution Corporation, Artist’s Rooms at K21 Ständehaus, Düsseldorf

2015 Apalazzo Gallery (with Edson Chagas), Brescia, Italy

2014 Ellis King Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

2013 Kawokudi, Accra, Ghana Nima, Accra, Ghana


Adum, Railway Station, Kumasi, Ghana
Jute, What Is Art?, K.N.U.S.T Museum, Kumasi, Ghana
Cannon Wax, Jamestown, Accra, Ghana

2012 Sisala Coal Market, Newtown, Accra, Ghana


Trading Identities, MFA Block, Kumasi Ghana

2011 The colonized body, Kokomlemle, Accra, Ghana

2010 Class and Identity, K.N.U.S.T, Kumasi Ghana

2009 Purity? Cultures of display, Bomso, Kumasi, Ghana


Cannon Wax, Jamestown, Accra, Ghana

Selected group exhibitions

2022 Contextile 2022, 6th Contemporary Textile Biennial, Guimarães, Portugal


Revival: Materials and Monumental Forms, ICA Watershed, Boston, USA
Christen Sveaas Art Foundation: The Unseen selected by Hurvin Anderson,
Whitechapel Gallery, London
Temporary Atlas Cartographies of the Self in the Art of Today, Treviso
Contemporanea, Italy

2021 Narrow Gate of the Here-and-Now: Social Fabric, IMMA, Dublin


WASTE X AGE: What can design do?, Design Museum, London
Afro- Atlantic Histories, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; National Gallery of Art,
Washington, D.C. (2022)
Fourth Plinth Shortlist, National Gallery, London
Congoville, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp
Force Times Distance - On Labour and its Sonic Ecologies, Sonsbeek Biennale,
The Netherlands

2020 (Group) Global(e) Résistance, Centre Pompidou, Paris


NIRIN, Artspace and Cockatoo Island, 22nd Biennale of Sydney
tomorrow, there will be more of us, Stellenbosch Triennale, Cape Town

2019 Tirana Patience, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, Albania


Future Genealogies, Tales From The Equatorial Line, 6th Lubumbashi Biennale,
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Working Labor, SAIC Sullivan Galleries, Chicago
Ghana Freedom, Ghana Pavilion, Arsenale, 58th Venice Biennale
UNTITLED, Frieze Sculpture, Rockefeller Center, New York
Eldorama, Tripostal, Lille, France
Kubatana, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen, Norway
Dirty Protest: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer
Museum, Los Angeles
Material Insanity, Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL),
Marrakech, Morocco

2018 Torre Matarazzo, Sao Paulo


Radical Histories, 2012-2018, Nuit Blanche, Toronto
Memory Palace, White Cube, London
0.10 RELOADED, Avantgarde 2018, Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich
Time is the Game of Man, European ArtEast Foundation, Castello di Brolio, Gaiole
In Chianti, Italy
Histórias Afro Atlânticas, MASP Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo Assis Chateaubriand,
São Paulo, Brazil
Non-Orientable Nkansa, Art Basel Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland
No Time For Caution 1966, 2014-2018, La Biennale de l’Art africain contemporain:
DAK’ART, Dakar, Senegal
Pulling at Threads: the Woven Object in Contemporary, The Norval Foundation Art
Gallery, Cape Town
EX AFRICA, Centro Cultural Banco de Brasil, São Paulo; Centro Cultural Banco de
Brasil, Rio de Janeiro; Centro Cultural Banco de Brasil, Brasilia
Triângulo do Atlântico, 11ª Bienal de Artes Visuais do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2017 Manipulate the World, Moderna Museet, Stockholm


EX AFRICA, Centro Cultural Banco de Brasil, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Documenta 14, Kassel, Germany and Athens
Future Generation Art Prize at Venice, Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Event of the 57th
Venice Biennale (Future Generation Art Prize touring exhibition)
Future Generation Art Prize, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine
When the Heavens Meet the Earth, Selected Works from the Robert Devereux Sina
Jina Collection of Contemporary Art, The Heong Gallery at Downing College,
Cambridge, UK

2016 Cornfields in Accra, Museum of Science and Technology, Accra, Ghana


An Age of Our Own Making, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
Material Effects, Eli and Edythe Broad Museum, Michigan State University, East
Lansing, Michigan

2015 The Gown Must Go To Town, Museum of Science and Technology, Accra, Ghana
All the World’s Futures, Arsenale, 56th Venice Biennale
Broken English, Tyburn Gallery, London
Panagaea II, Saatchi Gallery, London
Artist’s Rooms, K21, Düsseldorf

2014 Pangaea New Art from Africa and Latin America, Saatchi Gallery, London
Masked and Unmasked, Dak’Art OFF, Saint Louis, Senegal

2011 Illumination, Installation, K.N.U.S.T Museum, Kumasi, Ghana

2009 Hatching Out, K.N.U.S.T Museum, Kumasi, Ghana

Selected awards

2017 Future Generation Art Prize, Shortlist, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine

2010 Paa Kwame Award, Department of Painting, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana

Selected residencies
2020 Principal Prince Claus Laureate

2017-18 Residency, DAAD Berliner künstler programm des daad, Berlin


Residency, Occupy Atopos, Athens

2015 Residency, OFKOB, Ofoase Kokobeng, Ghana

2014 Residency, OFKOB, Ofoase Kokobeng, Ghana

2013 Residency, Gasworks, London


Residency, OFKOB, Ofoase Kokobeng, Ghana

2012 Residency, Atelierhaus Hilmsen, Germany

Selected Public Collections

Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo


Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Fondazione Giuliani, Rome
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Instituto Inhotim, Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil
K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong
Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, China
Long Museum, Shanghai, China
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California
Madre Museum, Napels, Italy
Margulies Collection, Miami, Florida
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
National Gallery of Canada, Ontario
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Norwich Castle Museum, Norwich, UK
Pino Pascali Foundation, Polignano a Mare, Italy
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Zinsou Foundation, Benin

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