Kimathi Donkor
Kimathi Donkor bɛ dɔɣi o la yuuni 1965 ni, o nyɛla nucheeni tuun tumdi ŋun ʒi London, ka o peentin nyɛ din kuli jendiri duniya zaa ni gbansabila taarihi nima. O tuma nyɛla bɛ ni daa nyɛ shɛli ka vihili ka daa zaŋli n niŋ bɛ ni booni shɛli ni duniya zaa (museums) la ni, nti pahi yaɣa nim din gbai London's National Portrait Gallery,[1] British Museum,[2] Diaspora Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennial,[3] 29th São Paulo Art Biennial[4] nti pahi 15th Sharjah Biennial.[5] O nyɛla Ghana bilichini mini Anglo-Jewish ni daŋ lan yi Jamaican nim zuɣu, [6] ka o peetibu tuma nim nyɛ din jendiri "African diasporic bodies and souls as sites of heroism and martydom, empowerment and fragility...myth and matter".[7]
Pilli mini shikuru chandi
mali niŋDonkor nyɛla bɛ ni dɔɣi so fɔŋ yuli booni Bournemouth, n be tingbani yuli booni England, yuuni 1965.[4] o daa nyɛla ŋun yɛli o mamaŋ lahi bali ni: " bɛ daa dɔɣi mala UK ka n ma nyɛ Anglo-Jewish ka n ba nyɛ Ghana nira , amaa ka n daa lee nyɛ bɛ ni kpuɣi so kuli Jamaica mini UK ti wunsi. Ti daa nyɛla ban be Zambia saha shɛli, ni Central Africa, ni ka do so ŋun daa kpuɣima maa daa tumdi vet tuma. N naala n shikuru west of England ni, ka daa nai kpuɣi naponŋ chaŋ London, ni baa ni ka n daa ʒini. Saha shɛli ha, n laanbi ban daa wunsiri ma maa daa nyɛla ban daa che tabi saha shɛli ka daa lan labi na n ti labi bɔ tabi yaha, lala chemi ka duŋ maa golimbu pahi, di ni daaniŋ ka Zambia nim gba pahi. "[8]
Donkor daa deela bɔhimbu shɛhira gbaŋ din nyɛ Art Foundation Diploma la shikuru yuli booni Bournemouth and Poole College of Arts n daa lahi deegi BA (Hons) degree shɛhira gbaŋ din jendi (fine art ) shikuru yuli booni Goldsmiths College, University of London, n ti pahi shɛhira gbaŋ din nyɛ master's degree din jendi ( fine art ) shikuru yuli booni Camberwell College of Arts.[9][10] O daa nyɛla ŋun deegi o (PhD) shikuru yuli booni Chelsea College of Arts yuuni 2016.[11][12] O lahi nyɛla ŋun tim nuu pam zaŋ kpa o ʒilɛlini baŋsim lɛbu polo din nyɛ Black History for Action.[6] Yuuni 2011, ŋuni n daa nyɛ sɔŋsim shɛli din yuli booni Derek Hill Foundation Scholarship la n chaŋ British nim shikuru din be Rome la .[12][13]
Selected solo exhibitions
mali niŋ- 2024 Black History Painting, Niru Ratnam Gallery, London.
- 2023 Helix/Idyl, Niru Ratnam Gallery, London.
- 2023 [1] On Episode Seven Holland Park Billboard, London
- 2022, Play, Rest, Work, University College London Hospital, London, England
- 2021, [2] Notebooks Brixton Library, London
- 2021, [3] Idylls DKUK, London
- 2015 Some Clarity of Vision, Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg
- 2013 Daddy, I want to be a black artist, Peckham Space, London
- 2012 Queens of the Undead, with InIVA at Rivington Place, London
- 2008 Hawkins & Co, Market Theatre Gallery, Armagh, Northern Ireland
- 2005 Fall/Uprising, Bettie Morton Gallery, London
- 2005 Caribbean Passion: Haiti 1804, Art Exchange Gallery (touring), Nottingham
- 2004 Caribbean Passion: Haiti 1804, Bettie Morton Gallery, London
Selected group exhibitions
mali niŋ- 2024: "The Time is Always Now Artists Reframe the Black Figure", National Portrait Gallery, London, England (Curated by Ekow Eshun).
- 2024: "Soulscapes", Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, England (Curated by Lisa Anderson).
- 2023: "Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present" Archived 2024-07-15 at the Wayback Machine, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, UAE (Curated by Hoor Al Qasimi).
- 2022-23: "The New African Portraiture. Shariat Collections", Krems, Austria (Curated by Ekow Eshun).
- 2021: "UNTITLED: Art on the conditions of our time", Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, England (Curated by Paul Goodwin with Guy Haywood).
- 2021: "War Inna Babylon: The Community’s Struggle for Truths and Rights", Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England (Curated by Stafford Scott, Kamara Scott and Rianna Jade Parker).
- 2021: "QUEEN: From the Collection of CCH Pounder", the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History Detroit, USA.
- 2019: "London Art Fair" Archived 2019-06-26 at the Wayback Machine, Business Design Centre, London, England (Presented by Ed Cross Fine Art).
- 2018: "Diaspora Pavilion: Venice to Wolverhampton" Archived 2019-06-26 at the Wayback Machine, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, England (curated by David A. Bailey and Jess Taylor)
- 2018: "A History of Drawing", Camberwell Space, London, England (curated by Kelly Chorpening).
- 2017: "Diaspora Pavilion" Archived 2019-06-26 at the Wayback Machine, Venice Biennale, Palazzo Pisani S. Marina, Venice, Italy (curated by David A. Bailey and Jess Taylor).
- 2017–18: "Ink And Blood", International Slavery Museum, Liverpool, England (curated by Jean Francois Manicom).
- 2017: "Untitled: Art on the Conditions of Our Time", New Art Exchange, Nottingham, England (curated by Paul Goodwin and Hansi Momodu-Gordon)
- 2013: Entre Trânsitos e Viagens, Carpintaria São Lazaro, Lisbon, Portugal
- 2013: What's Going On, The Usher Gallery, Lincoln, UK
- 2012: Invisible Forces, Furtherfield, London
- 2011: Seven Things To Do In An Emergency, The British School at Rome, Rome, Italy
- 2010: 29th Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- 2008: Hawkins & Co, Contemporary Urban Centre, Liverpool, UK
- 2004: Historicism, 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, London
- 1985: Young, Black & Here, People's Gallery, London
- 1985: Artists Against Apartheid, Royal Festival Hall, London
Kundivihira
mali niŋ- ↑ Adrian Searle, "The Time is Always Now review – striking shades of brilliant black figurative art" (review) The Guardian, 21 February 2024.
- ↑ Artwork Yaa Asantewaa Inspecting the Dispositions at Ejisu (en-UK).
- ↑ Brett, Phil (29 October 2017). Beyond the boundaries: A review of the Diaspora Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale (en-US).
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Agnaldo Farias; Moacir dos Anjos; Adrian Piper; et al. 29th Bienal de São Paulo catalogue: there is always a cup of sea to sail in. São Paulo: Fundac̦ão Bienal de São Paulo, 2010. ISBN 9788585298333; ISBN 8585298332.
- ↑ https://sharjahart.org/biennial-15 Archived 2024-07-15 at the Wayback Machine title= Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present|access-date=18 March 2024|language=en-gb
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Retelling history through art – an interview with Kimathi Donkor, Studio International (en-gb). The Studio Trust (5 December 2012).
- ↑ Bernier, Celeste-Marie (2019-01-01). Stick to the Skin: African American and Black British Art, 1965–2015 (in English). University of California Press. ISBN 9780520286535.
- ↑ Philip Kaisary, "An interview with Kimathi Donkor", Lacuna Magazine, 18 February 2015.
- ↑ CV.
- ↑ Yvette Greslé, Tɛmplet:Usurped, FAD, 3 October 2013.
- ↑ Kimathi Donkor.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Black art and activism.
- ↑ McLean, Sarah (1 April 2019). Meet Dr Kimathi Donkor, new Course Leader, BA Fine Art Painting at Camberwell (en).
Further reading
mali niŋ- Anderson, L., 2024, Soulscapes, Dulwich Picture Gallery (London), ISBN 9781855145580
- Anjos, M., & A. Farias, 2010, 29th Bienal Documentation, São Paulo: Fundação de Bienal São Paulo, ISBN 978-85-85298-37-1
- Anjos, M., & A. Farias, 2010, 29th Bienal Catalogue, São Paulo: Fundação de Bienal São Paulo, ISBN 978-85-85298-33-3
- Barbrook, R., 2014. Class Wargames: Ludic subversion against spectacular capitalism, Minor Compositions; distributed by Autonomedia (New York), ISBN 978-1-57027-293-6
- Benci, J., 2012, Fine Arts 2011-2012, British School at Rome (Rome), ISBN 978-0-904152-64-7
- Bernier, Celeste-Marie, 2019. Stick to the Skin: African American and Black British Art, 1965–2015. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520286535
- Dibosa, D., et al. 2012, Kimathi Donkor: Queens of the Undead Iniva (London), ISBN 978-1-899846-54-2
- Chambers, E., 2014, Black Artists in British Art: A History from 1950 to the Present, I.B.Tauris (London and New York), ISBN 978-1-7807-6271-5
- Eshun, E., 2024, The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure, National Portrait Gallery (London), ISBN 9781855145580
- Kaisary, P., 2014, The Haitian Revolution in the Literary Imagination, London and Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, ISBN 978-0-8139-3546-1
- Miranda, M., & A. Páscoa, 2014, Offline: Between Transits and Journeys, Lisbon: XEREM Associação Cultural, ISBN 978-989-97183-1-9
- Miller, M., 2013, Seeing Through, London: Tate Young People's Programmes
- Parker, R., 2021, A Brief History of Black British Art, Tate Publishing (London), ISBN 978-1849767569
External links
mali niŋ- Kimathi Donkor's official website
- Kimathi Donkor's page at Niru Ratnam Gallery, London.
- Kimathi Donkor's page Archived 2017-05-29 at the Wayback Machine at Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, South Africa.
- Kimathi Donkor's page at Omenka Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria.