Evan Ifekoya

EXHIBITIONS

2017 Lavender Menace (working title), Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

2017 All Channels Open, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire

2017 Untitled: art on the conditions of our time, curated by Paul Goodwin and Hansi Momudu Gordon, New Art Exchange, Nottingham

2016  Wandering/Wilding: Blackness on the Internet, group exhibition, curated by Legacy Russell at IMT Gallery, London

2016 Kind of Flossy, group exhibition with Zadie Xa and Adam Saad, curated by Taylor Le Melle and Imran Perreta (CREAM) at Assembly Point, London

2016 The Quiet Violence of dreams, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2016 TSG: Come together, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Canada 

2016 Okun Song, Solo, curated by A---Z, StudioRCA, London 

2015/16 normcore, IAb, Germany (online)

2015 Cutting Shapes, Screening room, Site Gallery, Sheffield

2015 Embodied Spaces, FramerFramed, De Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam

2015 All Of Us Have A Sense Of Rhythm, David Roberts Art Foundation, London

2015 Studio Voltaire OPEN 2015, London

2014/15 30 years of the Future, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester

2013 Dyad, Kingsgate Gallery, London 

PERFORMANCE

2016 An Unhappy evening, collaborative performance, OOR Records, Zurich

2016  Let The Rhythm Pull You Towards Your Edges (after Marlon Riggs), performance lecture, Document Festival, CCA, Glasgow

2016 This Catalogue of Poses (performance for radio), Transmission Gallery, Glasgow

2016 This Catalogue of Poses (performance for radio), Late Junction/ Park Nights at Serpentine Galleries, London

2016 This Catalogue of Poses (performance for radio), Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire

2016 A Score, A Groove, A Phantom, Whitstable Bienniale

2015 FREE2Dance, Alternative Cities Turbine Festival, Tate Modern, London

2015 ARtFUnSHACK,The Marlborough, Brighton

2014 PREFORM Edition, Rivington Place, London

2014 ARtFUnSHACK, Fringe! Art & film festival, London

2014 DISCO BREAKDOWN: PREFORM::LEC, Sound Gender Feminism Activism, London College of Communication

2014 ARtFUnSHACK, Theatre in the mill, Bradford

2014 PREFORM Edition, NgBK, Berlin

2014 ARtFUnSHACK,The Marlborough, Brighton

2014 ARtFUnSHACK, Ovalhouse, London

2014 PREFORM Edition, Rich Mix, London

2013 Home is Homies, Kingsgate Gallery, London 

SCREENINGS   

2016 She Was A Full Body Speaker, Unity Theatre, Liverpool

2016 The Gender Song and ARtFUnSHACK (trailer), Floating Cinema, London

2016 She Was A Full Body Speaker, Cinenova: Now Presents, The Showroom, London

2016 Sticky Black Shades of Opacity curated by Shama Khanna, Jerwood Space, London

2016 The Gender Song, MANPOWER festival, Lisbon, Portugal

2016 Ojulowo, Artsadmin, London

2013 EQUATIONS Moving image festival, Kingsgate Gallery, London

2012 Retro Action, Kingsgate Gallery, London

2011 A Boi is ... London Lesbian and Gay film festival, BFI, London

AWARDS/COMMISSIONS/RESIDENCIES

2017 The Arts Foundation, Live Art Award supported by the Yoma Sasburg Estate (shortlisted)

2016 Durham Wharf Residency, Royal College of Art

2016 Queering love, queering hormones commission from BFI/ No.w.here/ Wellcome Trust

2014 Arts Council England Grants for the Arts award for ARtFUnSHACK!

2014 Transforming stories co-commission with Ovalhouse, Pink Fringe and Theatre in the Mill

2012 - 2013 Emerging Artist Residency, Kingsgate Workshops Trust

LECTURES/PEDAGOGY/PRESENTATIONS

2016 CHEWY, Curated performance event, Dyson Gallery, RCA, London

2016 Performance Lecture, All of Us Have a Sense of Rhythm, UCLan, Preston

2016 Performance Lecture, Sound art department, London College of Communication

2016 Black LGBT Nightlife, Cubitt Gallery

2016 A Score, A Groove, A Phantom, presentation, Cubitt Gallery, London

2015 Lecture, Chelsea College of Art, UAL, London

2015 Diva Debate – Confront/Contest/Create, panel @ Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool

2015 Mirage: 20 Years On, Presentation and panel, ICA, London

2015 Queer Black Spaces 3, presentaton and panel, UCL Equiano Centre, London

2015 Lecture and tutorials, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, Winchester

2015 Filthy Mouth—Dirty Politics: Carol Hanisch to Bell Hooks Symposium, Presentation, Amsterdam

2015 Politics Of The Art School: Black Arts Movement Then And Now, Collective Creativity in conversation, Nottingham Contemporary

2015 Disseminating Identities: Blackness since 1960, Panel Discussion, V&A, London

2013 - 2014 Lead Artist, Schools and teachers programme, Tate London

EDUCATION

MA Contemporary Art Practice (Performance/ Moving Image), Royal College of Art, London

BA Fine Art: New media, First Class Honours, Winchester school of Art, University of Southampton