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Ato Malinda is a cross disciplinary artist who was born in Kenya and now lives and works in Rotterdam. Through her diverse practice of performance, drawing, installation, video and ceramics, Malinda investigates the hybrid nature of African identity. She also focuses on gender and female sexuality, inspired by the untold stories of LGBTQ communities. These photos are from the body of work Representation, which explore the symbolism of the rainbow flag, and question its inclusivity. The flag has come to represent LGBTQ movements globally, but in this work Malinda raises the potential difficulties for a Kenyan woman with same-sex desires to identify with the flag whilst dealing with the stigma and issues of personal safety which continue to exist in the country. Malinda has a Masters in Fine Arts from Transart Institute, New York. She was one of the honourees of the inaugural African art awards given by the Smithsonian Institution in 2016. She was also one of the awardees of the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, 2015 and won the One Minutes Award for moving photography in 2012. Her solo shows include Games, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin in 2013 and Incommensurable Identities, Aarhus Art Building, 2011. She has exhibited in group exhibitions at Brooklyn Museum, 2016, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen, 2015, the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, 2015, and the Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, 2014, among others.

Untitled, 2015 Signed ‘ato' (lower right) Mixed media on paper 30 x 40 cm Sold as a pair Ato Malinda's cross-disciplinary practice currently focuses on the ontology of African female experience, queer identity and feminist narratives, and has been gaining rapid prominence on the global contemporary art scene. These works are from a limited series of zoomorphic drawings of female figures, which interpret roles of women in African social hierarchies. Malinda studied art history and molecular biology at the University of Texas. She also has a masters in fine art from Transart Institute in New York and is currently working towards a doctorate of philosophy (PhD) in art at Leiden University and the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. Her work is part of the travelling exhibition The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, curated by Simon Njami, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main and SCAD Museum of Art in 2015. Other solo and group exhibitions include African Odysseys, BRASS Contemporary Art Centre Brussels 2015, GAMES, Savvy Contemporary in Berlin 2013, and the Karen Blixen Museum in Copenhagen 2010.

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