blaykyi kenyah
CURRICULUM VITAE

blaykyi kenyah

born 1996, in Sunyani, Ghana
lives and works in Frankfurt am Main, Germany

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
    Propositions, KABUFF – E-werk, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

2022
    Sign, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    Blood and Soil, g10 Projektraum, Darmstadt, Germany


2019
    Walmart Project, 77Art, Rutland, United States of America
    Secret Places, Mathey College, Princeton, United States of America

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
   Rundgang, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste—Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2024
   Soft Proof (participating exhibition in RAY— Triennale of Photography), Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
   Rundgang, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste—Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
   Rundgang, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Wien, Austria

2023
   Rundgang, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste—Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2022
    Rundgang, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste—Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2019
    Chautauqua School of Art Emerging Artists Exhibition, Fowler-Kellogg Gallery, Chautauqua, United States of America
    Extraordinary Processes, Princeton Arts Complex, Princeton, United States of America
    Media Arts Show, Lucas Center for the Arts, Princeton, United States of America


WRITINGS
2024
    A Short List of Scattered Thoughts while Hiking Towards the Burgruine Falkenstein in the Taunus. Chapter in “Soft Proof”. 2024

2021
    QUESTIONNAIRE: Noldor Artist Residency: Nurture as an Essential Part of Artistic Process and Growth. Blaykyi Kenyah in conversation with Joseph Awuah Darko and Kenza Hamdi. Flash Art International 335. Summer 2021

2019
    Finding Meaning in Futility: A Review of Whitney Ramage’s ‘Disembodied’. Times Argus: 16th November, 2019


TALKS, PANELS, AND LECTURES
2024
    Co-moderator with Prof. Philippe Pirotte, “Heisse Luft/Selected Models” Book Launch, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste— Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2023
    Co-moderator with Caro Tüngler, Grada Kilomba on the 35th Bienial Saõ Paulo, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste— Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2022
    Convenor, Public Conversation with Stefano Harney, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste—Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2021
    Post-screening Discussion Moderator, Screening: “Story of Our Lives”, IDAHOT Festival, Accra, Ghana
    Panel Moderator, Digital Protests in the African Queer Rights Movement, AfroQueer Zoom in Festival, Accra, Ghana

2020
    Artists’ conversation with Yaa Addae and Aisha Nelson, DuBois Centre, Accra, GH

2019
    On Chris Friday’s Practice, Hultquist Hall, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, US


CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2021
    Curatorial Assistant, Simply Iconic, Museum of Science and Technology, Accra, Ghana
    Curatorial Assistant, Middle Grounds, Ada, Ghana


FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2025
    Friends of Städelschule Travel Grant to the Student Week of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo

2024
    Antje und Jürgen Conzelmann Rundgang Award, Städelschule - Portikus e.V., Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2022
    Deutschlandstipendium, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste— Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2020
    Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Outstanding Artist Award, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Canada

2019
    Grove Street Fellowship, 77Art Center, Rutland, United States of America
    Karin A. and Melvin H. Johnson Scholarship, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, United States of America


RESIDENCIES
2025
    KABUFF, E-werk, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany


2020
    Soft Power, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Canada
    IMMA Summer School: Art and Politics #2, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
    Critlab, Foundation for Contempoorary Arts- Ghana, Accra, Ghana

2019
    77Art Residency, 77Art Center, Rutland, US
    School of Art Residency, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, IS


ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2025
    Class assistant, Worlds in Revolt: Postwar Art and the Politics of Cultural Liberation, under Prof. Philippe Pirotte, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste— Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    Class assistant, Klasse Hassan Khan, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste— Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany


2024
    Class assistant, Klasse Hassan Khan, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste— Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2023
    Class assistant, Making Hi-Stories, under Prof. Monika Szewczyk, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste— Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    Class assistant, Making Exhibitions Politically, under Prof. Yasmil Raymond, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste— Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany


ACADEMIC SERVICE
2025
    Orientation Team, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste— Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2024
    Orientation Team, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste— Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2021-22
    Planning committee, Gasthof Festival, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste— Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany


PRESS/BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023
    Andreas Cevalti, Kunst lernen, Kunst atmen. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

2022
    Studierende der Frankfurter Städelschule präsentieren ihre Arbeiten. Frankfurter Rundschau


EDUCATION
ongoing
    Meisterschüler von Hassan Khan, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste— Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2024
    Exchange Semester with Klasse Iman Issa, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Wien, Austria

2019
    AB coursework in Politics, Princeton University, Princeton, United States of America
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