Grace Ndiritu
b. 1976, United Kingdom
Grace Ndiritu is a British-Kenyan artist born in 1982. Ndiritu won the Jarman Film Award 2022 for her films Black Beauty and Becoming Plant. Her films have also been selected for the 72nd Berlinale (2022), BFI London Film Festival (2022) and FIDMarseille (2021). Ndiritu will be included in the group show, Making New Worlds: Li Yuan-Chia and Friends, Kettles Yard, Cambridge (2023). Recent solo exhibitions include Grace Ndiritu Reimagines the FOMU Collection, Foto Museum, Antwerp (2023); The Healing Pavilion, Wellcome Collection, London (2022); Post-Hippie Pop Abstraction, Arcade, Brussels (2022); Ghent: How to Live Together, Kunsthal Gent (2021); The Ark, Bluecoat, Liverpool (2019); A Return to Normalcy: Birth of a New Museum, Glasgow School of Art (2015); A Quest For Meaning, L'appartment 22, Rabat, Morocco (2014); Responsible Tourism/Still Life, Chisenhale Gallery, London (2007) and Grace Ndiritu, Ikon Gallery at the 51st Venice Biennale (2005).
Recent group shows include Interdependencies: Perspectives on Care and Resilience, Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland (2023); British Art Show 9 (2021/2022); Coventry Biennial, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry (2021) and Our Silver City 2094, Nottingham Contemporary (2021). Recent performances include Labour: A Birth of a New Museum #3, S.M.A.K Ghent (2023); Labour: A Birth of a New Museum #2, RAMM, Exeter (2023); Women’s Strike: Healing The Museum, Bozar, Brussels (2022); Labour: A Birth of a New Museum, Nottingham Contemporary (2021); Women’s Strike: Healing The Museum, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (2021); Healing The Museum, Africa Museum, Tervuren, Belgium (2019) and Dreaming The Museum Back To Life, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona (2017).