Halima Haruna is a Nigerian artist and educator living in the U.S. Her creative practice revolves around cultural theory based on Nigerian socio-politics, mediated through performance and video. Her research interests are at the intersection of the decolonization of knowledge and epistemology through spiritual practice. She recently completed a fellowship with Digital Earth 2019, a program formed around the construction of images of the Earth’s techno-sphere. She received a MA in Research Architecture from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2018.
EXHIBITIONS and PUBLICATIONS
dedication; for me and mine in Technologies of the Sacred at Display, Prague. (05/2020 – 06/2020)
Images published for In Mirrors by Emmanuel Balogun in Limbo Magazine S/S Issue 1, 2020.
To Divine and Other Side of the Creek in Languid Hands presents ‘away, completely: denigrate (introduction and full shows) at Narrative Projects, London (06/2019) and (11/2019 till 02/2020)
Other Side of the Creek at the 12th edition of Bamako Encounters (11/2019 – 01/2020)
Other Side of the Creek in Video Art and Talk-001 [solo show] at A Walk Space, Abuja. (04/2019)
How to be Untranslatable: Directions in iiliimi lipsing (vol. 3, Oct. 2018) of Paperwork Magazine, London.
Group show with SorryYouFeelUncomfortable in But What Are You Doing About White Supremacy? at Many Studios for Glasgow International 2018. (03/2018)
GRANTS and CONFERENCES
Ancestor Research Project: Earth as Oracle Work for Digital Earth Fellowship, Netherlands (092018 – 03/2019)
Networks.Africa Research Lab at FreedomLab for The New Institute, Amsterdam, (04/2019)
Creating Interference: Making Art, Developing Methods, Re-imagining Histories/Memories symposium at Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media, University of Westminster, London (CREAM), (06/2018)
EDUCATION
MA in Research Architecture at Centre for Research Architecture, Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London. (09/2017 – 09/2018)
Academic fields of interest: African audiovisual cultures, speculative finance and the real estate industry, nature and Blackness, citizen science, the politics of translation, collective performance and sociality, meta-fiction.
BA (Hons) in Architecture (09/2013 – 07/2016)