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