JIM CHUCHU b. Nairobi, Kenya; lives and works in Nairobi, Kenya
Selected exhibitions 2017 Jim Chuchu's Invocations, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC Another Antipodes/Urban Axis, Perth, Australia Making Africa, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA 2016 Making Africa, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Netherlands Fashion Film in Africa, Guggenheim Bilbao Senses of Time - Video and Film-Based Works of Africa: Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, New York Black Fantasia, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark Fashion Cities Africa, Royal Pavilion and Museums Brighton and Hove, Brighton, UK The Bones Remember: FNB Joburg Art Fair, South Africa Making Africa, CCCB Barcelona, Spain The Bones Remember: Goethe-Institut Nairobi, Kenya 2015 Now Cinema: Home Affairs, NOW Gallery, London, UK Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, WA Africa Utopia, Southbank Centre, London, UK Pagans: Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Seattle 1:54 NY: Contemporary African Art Fair, Pioneer Works Center for Art + Innovation, New York, NY Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design, Vitra Design Museum, Germany 2014 Visions of Africa, Addis Foto Fest 2014, Addis Ababa. Afropean Mimicry and Mockery, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany Shifting Africa, Mediations Biennale Poznan, Poland Precarious Imaging, Raw Center for Art, Knowledge and Society, Dakar, Senegal Future Reflexions: Five Positions of Contemporary African Art, Glasgow, Scotland 2013 Semana de Design Gráfico, Luanda, Angola 2011 Koroga II: Another African Story, Nairobi, Kenya 2010 Mwangalio Tofauti, Nairobi Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya 2009 Amnesia, Nairobi National Museum, Nairobi, Kenya 2008 24 Nairobi - video art installation (3 digital shorts), exhibited at the Nairobi National Museum, Nairobi, Kenya 24: Nairobi - Walkers and Workers, Goethe-Institut, Nairobi, Kenya
Collections Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
Festival Screenings Tuko Macho: 2018 International Film Festival Rotterdam 2017 British Film Insitute – The Big Thrill 2016 Toronto International Film Festival Human Rights Watch Film Festival Stories of Our Lives 2018 International Film Festival Rotterdam 2015 The 65th Berlin International Film Festival British Film Institute: Flare MoMA Documentary Fortnight Film Festival Toronto International Film Festival Homecoming 2014 International Film Festival Rotterdam Santa Barbara International Film Festival Seattle International Film Festival CinemAfrica Film Festival, Sweden 2013 Toronto International Film Festival Durban International Film Festival To Catch A Dream 2016 Chale Wote Street Art Festival, Ghana CPH Pix, Copenhagen 2015 A Shaded View of Fashion Design Indaba, South Africa Film Africa, London Berlin International Fashion Film Festival Dinka Translation 2014 Bokeh International Film Festival
Publications African Futures: Thinking About the Future through Word and Image (2016) Africa Rising: Fashion, Design and Lifestyle from Africa (2016) Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design (2015) Inspiration im Wechselstrom. Art Investor. Volume 5, 2014. pp 88 - 89. Iwalewa: Four Views into Contemporary Africa (2013) Mwangalio Tofauti: Nine Photographers from Kenya (2012) 24: Nairobi - An Exploration of a City (2008)