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Stacey Gillian Abe
Stacey Gillian Abe (born 1990) is a Ugandan multi-disciplinary contemporary artist known primarily for her photography, sculptures, installations, performance and painting. She attended Kyambogo University in Kampala, Uganda where she graduated with a BA Hons in Arts and Industrial Design in 2014. Abe’s works attempt to critique stereotypical depictions of her as a black woman. They highlight the strength and fragility of the female mind, seen as autobiographical and drawn from her own experiences.

Group exhibitions
2021: The Power of My Hands, Musée d’Art Moderne

2019 La-Puente-Seat of honour LKB/Gallery, Neustadt Galerien, Hamburg, Germany

2018 CLOSE iKAURU Contemporary, Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa

2017 Being Her(e) iKAURU Contemporary, TINAWC, Luanda, Angola

2016 Kampala Contemporary Circle Art Agency, Nairobi, Kenya

2016 Eroticism and intimacy: Faces, places and paths Underground Art Space, Kampala, Uganda

2016 AtWork Kampala Chapter 03 12th Dakar Biennale-AtWork and Art Basel

2015 Insaka project exhibition Livingstone, Zambia

2014 Women without Borders Institut Français. Kinshasa, DRC

2013 Something or Nothing Fas-Fas Gallery, Kampala, Uganda Age of Innocence Fas-Fas Gallery, Kampala, Uganda

2012 4th International Fireworks Exhibition Kabira Country Club, Kampala, Uganda

Black and White Exhibition Fas-Fas Gallery, Kampala, Uganda

Solo exhibitions
2021 Platform (online) Unit London, London, UK

2018 Cape Town Art Fair Cape Town, South Africa

2015 Point of Inertia Nafasi Art Space, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Awards
2017 The Mellon Foundation South Africa

2018 NMK Special Prize award: CYNET Art and C. Rockefeller Centre Dresden Germany

2018 ABSA Barclays L’Atelier First Merit Award South Africa

2019 Urbane Künste Ruhr Scholarly award Germany

2019 IWALEWAHAUS Art award Germany

Residencies
2019: Bag Factory (Johannesburg, South Africa), South Africa

2019: Artist-in-Residence Urbane Künste (, Dortmund, Germany)DE

2018: Artist-in-Residence Fondation Blachère, Apt, FR

2017: Artist’s and Writers (RAW) Arts of Africa

2016: Culture Vultures, Sefrou, MA

2015: Nafasi Art Space, Dar es Salaam, TZ

2014 32° East | Ugandan Arts Trust (Kampala, Uganda)

Collections
The Craft collection

ARAK Collection

Foundation Blachere Private Collection

Moleskine Foundation

Gusii Institute of Technology

Weaverbird Sculpture Park

Kisii University

W Art Foundation