Thierry Oussou
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
2019 Impossible is Nothing, Art Exchange, Essex, UK 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
2018
Tiwani Contemporary 16 Little Portland Street London W1W 8BP tel. +44 (0) 20 7631 3808 www.tiwani.co.uk
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
2008
Tiwani Contemporary 16 Little Portland Street London W1W 8BP tel. +44 (0) 20 7631 3808 www.tiwani.co.uk
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