Thierry Oussou
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Tiwani Contemporary 16 Little Portland Street London W1W 8BP tel. +44 (0) 20 7631 3808 www.tiwani.co.uk Thierry Oussou Born in 1988, Allada, Benin Lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands EDUCATION 2015-16 Rijksakademie van beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2012-14 Assistant to Meschac Gaba and Barthélémy Toguo 2007-8 Assistant to Ernesto Houngbo SOLO EXHIBITIONS Forthcoming (2020) Sao Paolo Biennale 2019 Patrimoine materile, immateriel, et artérité, Musée des Civilisation Noirs, Dakar, Senegal 2018 Timelines, Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK Before It Is Completely Gone, Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa 2017 Une histoire: le miel aux lèvres, Cargo in Context, Amsterdam, Netherlands Soil, Bradwolff Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2016 Don't Sit In, No Man's Art Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands Thierry Oussou, Ornis A. Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2019 21st Contemporary Art Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil | Imagined Communities, São Paulo, Brazil Tiwani Contemporary 16 Little Portland Street London W1W 8BP tel. +44 (0) 20 7631 3808 www.tiwani.co.uk 2018 Restless Matter, Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, Netherlands Works on Paper and Some Objects, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands We Don’t Need Another Hero, 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany Gaia in the Anthropocene, Garage Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands 2017 Field Work, Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK Impossible is Nothing, The Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2016 Dutch Royal Award for Modern Painting, Royal Palace, Amsterdam, Netherlands NO Future, Performance Biennale, Athens, Greece What About Africa?, Witteveen Art Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2015 Nine Artists, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa Aqui Africa, SESC, Belenzhino, São Paulo, Brazil Starting Block, Maison Rouge, Cotonou, Benin 2014 Textiles, Brazzaville, Atelier SAHM, Republic of the Congo Dokoutin, Mòsso, Brussels, Belgium Green Art Project & Multiplicity, Dak'Art Biennale, Dakar, Senegal TGD 10, IFAN Museum, Dakar, Senegal 2013 UTOPIA, Holbaek Museum, Denmark Western Waste meets African Craft, Blaakildegaard Museum & Kroppedal Museum, Denmark 2012 A WHAN KPO DO Te, Place des Martys, Cotonou, Benin Density New Generation, Lieu Unik, Cotonou, Benin Inventing the Image Mode, Benin Biennial, Ouidah, Benin 2011 GBAVI NOUKPIN NON, Lieu Unik, Cotonou, Benin 2010 WABA, Studio Oussou, Cotonou, Benin 2009 The Free Education in Benin, Médiathèque des diaspora, Cotonou, Benin Tiwani Contemporary 16 Little Portland Street London W1W 8BP tel. +44 (0) 20 7631 3808 www.tiwani.co.uk 2008 The Artistic Vision of Prison Life in Benin, Médiathèque des diaspora, Cotonou, Benin 2007 Young Prom'Art: Waste and Environment, Place des Martys, Cotonou, Benin 2006 The Centenary of the Death of King Behanzin, Place Goho, Abomey, Benin 2005 National Arts School Competition, Stade de l'Amitié, Cotonou, Benin RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS 2017 Arthouse residency, Lagos, Nigeria 2016 Nominated for Dutch Royal Award for Modern Painting, Royal Palace, Amsterdam, Netherlands Awarded first Jacqueline van Tongeren Fellowship, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2015-16 Rijksakademie residency, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2014 Dokoutin residency, Brussels, Belgium Mava Unit residency, Cotonou, Benin 2013 Youth Programme, World in Motion Images, Denmark 2012 Men Standing workshop, Fondation Zinsou, Cotonou, Benin Creation residency, Abomey, Benin Photographic workshop: Inventing the World in Image, Ouidah, Benin Project Design residency, Abomey, Benin 2011 Yè artist residency, Benin Winner of One Minute Africa Award, Cairo, Egypt 2010 Residency at ESMA Abomey-Calavi, Benin Nominated for Benin Golden Awards, Cotonou, Benin Tiwani Contemporary 16 Little Portland Street London W1W 8BP tel. +44 (0) 20 7631 3808 www.tiwani.co.uk 2007 Young Prom'Art Winner, Cotonou, Benin SELECTED COLLECTIONS Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis MN, USA agnès b, Private Collection .