"My concepts are more or less birthed from a personal context and then blown out of proportion, shrunk, distorted or disintegrated from which possible meaning and interpretations are shifted."
– Stacey Gillian Abe
Lives and works in Kampala, UG.
EDUCATION
2013
BA Hons in Art and Industrial Design, Kyambogo University, Kampala, UG
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Expo Chicago, Unit London, Chicago, USA
2022
Shrub-let of Old Ayivu, Unit London, London, UK
2021
Platform (online), Unit London, London, UK
2018
Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town, ZA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Ten, Unit London, London, UK
1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Unit London, London, UK
Spectrum: On Color & Contemporary Art, Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), San Francisco, CA, US
Revival: Digging into Yesterday, Planting Tomorrow, 21c Museum Hotel St. Louis, US Like Paradise, Claridge’s ArtSpace, London, UK
1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Unit London, London, UK
2022
Nice time to start painting, Bode Projects, Havana, CU
Empowerment, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, DE
In The Round, Unit London, London, UK
Woman to Woman, Bode Projects, Berlin, DE
A Feminine Lexicon (online), Museo Salvatore Ferragamo, Florence, IT
2021
Song of Songs, Unit London, London, UK
Self-Addressed, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, CA, US
Photo Vogue Festival, BASE Milano, Milan, IT
Running - the New Contemporary, Qingdao Art Museum, Qingdao, CN
The Power of My Hands, Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, FR
2020
IRL, Unit London, London, UK
Stellenbosch Triennial, Cape Town, ZA
Playing to the Gallery, Afriart, Uganda, KE
2019
La Puente - Seat of Honor, Bode Projects, Hamburg, DE
LATITUDES ART FAIR, Johannesburg, ZA
Cape Town Art fair, Cape Town, ZA
Arco Lisboa, Lisbon, PT
AKAA Art Fair, Paris, FR
2018
Johannesburg Art Fair FNB, Johannesburg, ZA
Cape Town Art fair (solo presentation), Cape Town, ZA
Dak’Art OFF, 13th Dakar Biennale, Dakar, SN
Addis Foto Fest, Addis Ababa, ET
1:54 Contemporary Art Fair, New York, NY, US
2017
Johannesburg Art Fair FNB, Johannesburg, ZA
4th Silk Road Festival, Xi‘an, CN
Being Her(e), !Kauru African Contemporary Art, Johannesburg, ZA
2016
Kampala Contemporary Circle Art Agency, Kampala, UG
Eroticism and Intimacy - Faces, Places and Paths, The
Underground Art Space, Kampala, UG
Dak'Art, 12th Dakar Biennale, Dakar, SN
2015
AtWork Kampala Chapter 03, Moleskine Foundation, Kampala, UG
Art crossing boarders - Pawa 254, Goethe institute, Nairobi, KE
7th Insaka International Artists workshop Zambia, Lusaka, ZM
DOADOA East African Performing Arts Market, Kampala, UG
2014
Women without Borders, Institut Francais Kinshasha, Kinshasa, CD
International Stone talk, Nairobi Museum, Nairobi, KE
KLA ART 014, Kampala, UG
7th International Bayimba Festival of the Arts, Bayimba, UG
2013
Age of Innocence, Fas-Fas Art Gallery, Kampala, UG
6th LaBa Street Art Festival, Kampala, UG
2012
Something or Nothing, Fas-Fas Gallery, Kampala, UG
Black and White, Fas-Fas Gallery, Kampala, UG
RESIDENCIES
2019
Artist-in-Residence, Urbane Künste, Dortmund, DE
2018
Artist-in-Residence, Fondation Blachère, Apt, FR
2016
Culture Vultures, Sefrou, MA
2015
Nafasi Art Space, Dar es Salaam, TZ
2014
32° East | Ugandan Arts Trust, Kampala, UG
AWARDS
2019
Iwalewa Art Award, Iwalewahaus, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, DE
2018
NMK Special Prize Award, CYNET Art and C. Rockefeller Centre, Dresden, DE
First Merit Award, L’Atelier ABSA Barclays, ZA
Listed in the Forbes Africa 30 under 30 Creatives
The Project Space Residency Award „rest of Africa“
Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development
Rhodes Associate Artist, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, ZA
2014
New talent award (2nd place) - the boda boda project\
KLAART 014, Kampala, UG
COLLECTIONS
Weaverbird Sculpture Park, UG
Gusii Institute of Technology, KY
Kisii University, KY
ARAK Collection Foundation, QA
Moleskine Foundation, IT
W Art Foundation, HK