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EVAN IFEKOYA
Iperu, Nigeru 1988
Lives and works in London, UK
CONTACT
email: info@evanifekoya.com
twitter: @evan_ife
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
Interview with JD Wislow for Young Artists in Conversation (YAC).