"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
Ausbildung
2013 BA Hons in Art and Industrial Design, Kyambogo University, Kampala, UG
Ausgewählte Einzel- und Gruppenausstellungen
2021 The Power of My Hands, Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, FR
2020 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
2017 The Project Space Residency Award „rest of Africa“
2016 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
Sammlungen
Weaverbird Sculpture Park, UG
Gusii Institute of Technology, KY
Kisii University, KY