Grace Ndiritu

Grace Ndiritu is a British-Kenyan artist born in 1982. Concerned with the transformation of our contemporary world, Ndiritu works across film, painting, textiles, performance and social practice. In 2012, she began creating a new body of work under the title Healing The Museum, which sets out to re-introduce non-rational healing methodologies such as shamanism to re-activate the ‘sacredness’ of art spaces. 

Ndiritu won the Jarman Film Award in 2022 for her films ‘Black Beauty’ and ‘Becoming Plant’. Recent solo exhibitions include Labour, Kate MacGarry, London (2023); The Healing Pavilion, Wellcome Collection, London (2023); Healing The Museum, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium (2023); Grace Ndiritu Reimagines the FOMU Collection, FOMU, Antwerp, Belgium (2022); Grace Ndiritu: An Absolute River, LUX, London (2022); Ghent: How to Live Together, Kunsthal Gent, Belgium (2021); The Ark, Bluecoat, Liverpool (2019); A Return to Normalcy: Birth of a New Museum, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland (2015); A Quest for Meaning, La Ira De Dios, Buenos Aires (2014); Responsible Tourism/Still Life, Chisenhale Gallery, London (2007) and Grace Ndiritu, the 51st Venice Biennale (2005). Recent performances include Women’s Strike: Healing The Museum, Bozar, Brussels (2021); Labour: A Birth of a New Museum, Nottingham Contemporary (2021); Women’s Strike: Healing The Museum, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (2021) and Healing The Museum, S.M.A.K. & M.S.K., Belgium (2019). 

Recent group shows include The Blue Room, 17th Lyon Biennale, France (2024); Making New Worlds: Li Yuan-Chia and Friends, Kettles Yard, Cambridge (2023); Interdependencies: Perspectives on Care and Resiliance, Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland (2023); British Art Show 9 (2021/2022); Coventry Biennial, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry (2021); Our Silver City 2094, Nottingham Contemporary (2021) and Living Forgiving Remembering, Museum Arnhem, The Netherlands (2020). Ndiritu’s films were selected for the 72nd Berlinale (2022), BFI London Film Festival (2022) and FIDMarseille (2021).