Khadija Cecile Niang
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Education
Slade School of Fine Art, MFA Fine Art (Painting), Sep 2023 – present
University of Reading, BA Art and English Literature, Sep 2016 - July 2020
Solo exhibition
It’s Not Just Hair, Platform Graduate Award 2020, Modern Art Oxford, 12 – 18 Oct 2020
Group exhibitions
The Beautiful Blue, The River and Rowing Museum, 24 May – 16 Jun 2024
Interim Showcase, Slade School of Fine Art, 12 – 14 Dec 2023
The Walls Are See Through, Emerald Gallery, 27 Mar – 2 Apr 2023
Emerging Creators Display, We Are Soul - V&A Friday Late x Guap, V&A, 26 Aug 2022
A Mother’s Tale by Guap and Woman To Woman, London Lighthouse Gallery, 25 – 27 Mar 2022
I Matter, Wells Malting, 11 – 27 Mar 2022
I Matter, Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery, 16 Sep – 28 Nov 2021
Offshoots, Rising Sun Arts Centre, 24 – 29 Aug 2021
Change, Norman Rea Gallery (Online), 13 Jul 2020
Asbestos Streams, University of Reading – Online Degree Show, 5 Jun 2020
Bloomin’, hosted by Art Clubbers at Stour Space, 31 Mar 2019
Film Screenings
Finding Home, Forging Identity (15) + ScreenTalk The Road to Nowhere magazine presents, Barbican Centre, 13 Jul 2022
Lewisham Homes Film Festival, The Albany and Foreign Body Productions, 22 May 2022
Open Source Collaborations: Round 3 Exhibition, Online Screening, The Albany and Foreign Body Productions, 16 Dec 2021
HOME x Saint Ogun First Year Anniversary, HOME by Ronan McKenzie, 6 Dec 2021
Curation
Cell Project Space: May - Jul 2024
As part of my fellowship at Cell Project Space (Oct 2023 - Aug 2024), myself and the two other Trainee Fellows, Michelle Lee Johnson and Chinaza Ruth Okonkwo curated the public programme ‘Permit To Dream’ for Cell Project Space’s summer programme.
As a three-part public programme, ‘Permit To Dream’ asked questions about how we begin to dream differently? What might facilitate a collective, rather than individual dreaming? What transpires from imaginative practices and how might they depart from the constraints of our current reality?
Prompted by this question of urgent dreaming, each event unpacked and activated a range of senses; touch, sight, and listening.
Touch Method
Sight Method
Sound Method
The Rising Sun Arts Centre: Jan – Aug 2021
Curator for Emerging Voices with artist Hadil Tamim in collaboration with Reading Refugee Support Group - January to May 2021
Emerging Voices Webinar with Hadil Tamim - The Rising Sun Arts Centre and Reading Refugee Support Group
Curator for Emerging Voices with artist Natalie Sired in collaboration with Berkshire Women’s Aid - June to August 2021
A Conversation with Natalie Sired - The Rising Sun Arts Centre
Writing and Publications
I am, We Are Different by Design Zine - Reading University
Black Hair and Belonging - It's Not Just Hair: Reflections by Khadija Cecile Niang - Modern Art Oxford
Panels and Online Talks
Platform Award 2020: Artists in Conversation - Modern Art Oxford
Dismantling Colonial Hair Standards - Virginutty
Amplify to Activate - Lived Experiences Panel - A Multilingual Experience
Asbestos Streams, Reading School of Art Degree Show // Class of 2020