Becoming Kaspale

July 2021

Video essay: Syowia Kyambi

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Syowia Kyambi is an interdisciplinary artist and curator of Kenyan/German origin who lives in Nairobi. Her work is on show internationally, and held in private and public collections including the Robert Devereux Collection, London, the Kouvola Art Museum Collection, Finland, the Sindika Dokolo Foundation, and the Nairobi National Museum which holds a permanent commission of her work ‘Infinity: Flashes of the Past’ (2007). She is recipient of the Centre for Art Design & Social Research (CAD+SR) fellowship (2018-2020), the UniArts Helsinki fellowship (2018), the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2017), as well as the Art in Global Health grant from the Wellcome Trust Fund, UK (2013). Artist residencies include PRAKSIS, Norway (2019), CAD+SR, Italy & Mexico (2018), HIAP, Finland (2018), Delfina Foundation, UK (2016) and IASPIS, Sweden (2013). Syowia holds an MFA from Transart Institute (2020) and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2002).

In her curatorial work she has collaborated with Ostrale Centre for Contemporary Art Biennale, Dresden, Germany (2019, 2016) and Goethe-Institute, Kenya (2012, 2010) as well as working with collectives and individual artists in East Africa. www.syowiakyambi.com

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