Rahima Gambo
Nigerian photographer and artist
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Rahima Gambo is a multidisciplinary artist based between London, UK and Abuja, Nigeria.
Contemporary African Photography Prize 2020
Rahima Gambo | |
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| Alma mater | Columbia Graduate School of Journalism |
| Awards | Contemporary African Photography Prize 2020 |
Early life and career
Gambo graduated from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Later in 2014 she started a fellowship at Magnum Foundation[1] Her early work Tatsuniya[2] 2017 - ongoing) a photography and film series takes place at Shehu Sanda Kyarimi school, Maiduguri, Nigeria became widely known for extending a collaboration with students of the school who perform in the series.
Work
Rahima Gambo[3] is an artist who explores the conceptual territories between photography, moving image and installation as it intersects with documentary, biography and place. Her process-driven practice is often circular and serial, where repetition and return to sites of interest are essential[4].
Selected solo and group exhibitions include Diriyah Biennale (2026)[5] Gasworks London (2024)[6] Liverpool Biennale (2023)[7] Kunsthalle Bern (2022)[8], Stevenson Gallery (2022)[9], Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles (2022), Biennale Mercosur, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2020), and the 11th and 12th editions of Rencontres de Bamako, Mali (2017-2019), Have you seen a Horizon Lately?[10] MACAAL, Morocco, “Resisting Images, Images Responding” at Coalmine, Winterthur, Switzerland, Mercosur Biennial, 12th edition—Feminine(s): visualities, actions and affections, “Afterglow” Yokohama Triennale 2020,[11] Lagos Biennale 2019. “Diaspora at Home” curated by KADIST and the Centre for Contemporary Art in Lagos, Nigeria.
