Stacey Gillian Abe Uganda, b. 1990

"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

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