Ato Malinda

Ato Malinda is a multidisciplinary performance artist.

Ato Malinda
Malinda in 2019
Born1981 (age 38–39)
Nairobi
OccupationArtist

Career

Ato Malinda was born in 1981[1] in Nairobi.[2] She received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Transart Institute in New York.[3] Her work explores the facets of African identity and authenticity in mediums including performance, music, drawing and painting, installation, ceramics, and video. She focuses on gender and female sexuality, especially the stories of LGBTQ communities, and in the past has focused on the representation of African objects in Western museums.[3]

At the 2010 SUD triennial in Douala, Cameroon, Malinda performed a piece on the myth of the water goddess Mami Wata in the mangroves of the Douala's Wouri River.[4] The performance, On fait ensemble,[5] was both observed and recorded.[4] In 2016, she was an awardee at the National Museum of African Art's inaugural African Art Awards[6][7] and highlighted by The Wall Street Journal as an emerging artist.[1]

Malinda is based in Rotterdam.[8][3]

Further reading
  • "'This work tells a story of African hybridity.': In Conversation with Ato Malinda". Contemporary And. March 26, 2014. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
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References
  1. Crow, Kelly (May 11, 2016). "5 Artists to Watch". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on March 6, 2018. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
  2. Sesay, Nadia (October 28, 2016). "A Conversation with Ato Malinda and Yinka Shonibare MBE on Exploring Identity in 'African Art'". Okay Africa. Retrieved June 6, 2019.
  3. "Alex Mawimbi". Contemporary And. Archived from the original on August 17, 2017. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
  4. Pinther, Kerstin; Fischer, Berit; Nzewi, Ugochukwu-Smooth C., eds. (2015). New Spaces for Negotiating Art (and) Histories in Africa. LIT Verlag Münster. p. 124. ISBN 978-3-643-90626-7. Archived from the original on March 26, 2018.
  5. https://frieze.com/article/speak-now
  6. McGlone, Peggy (October 27, 2016). "At 80, Johnnetta Cole reflects on her career and the controversial Cosby exhibition". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Archived from the original on March 22, 2017.
  7. "Inaugural African Art Awards go to Yinka Shonibare MBE, Ato Malinda and the Ford Foundation". ContemporaryAnd. October 31, 2016. Retrieved June 6, 2019.
  8. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/evoking-ship-rippling-sail-new-sculpture-global-connections-180961091/


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