Biography
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025
- MOMENTA x VOX: Frida Orupabo: On Lies, Secrets and Silence ,VOX ,Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Frida Orupabo: Tools from my chest ,Modern Art, Paris ,Paris, France
- Frida Orupabo: Spectrum Internationaler Preis für Fotografie der Stiftung Niedersachsen ,Sprengel Museum Hannover ,Hannover, Germany
- Frida Orupabo: On Lies, Secrets and Silence ,Astrup Fearnley Museet ,Oslo, Norway
2024
2023
2022
- Frida Orupabo: I've Been Here For Days ,Stevenson, Cape Town ,Cape Town, South Africa
- Frida Orupabo: How Fast Shall We Sing ,Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm ,Stockholm, Sweden
- Frida Orupabo: Closed Up Like A Fist ,Nicola Vassell Gallery ,New York, USA
- Frida Orupabo: I have seen a million pictures of my face and still I have no idea ,Fotomuseum Winterthur ,Winterthur, Switzerland
2020
2019
2018
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
- Photography Now ,V&A South Kensington ,South Kensington, London, UK
- Stolpern, bitte! ,Kunststiftung DZ BANK ,Frankfurt Am Main, Germany
- GIRLS. On Boredom, Rebellion and Being In-Between ,MoMu Antwerp ,Antwerp, Belgium
- Works from the Colección Jumex ,Museo Jumex ,Santa Maria Tulpeltac, Mexico City, Mexico
- Rapunzel, Rapunzel ,Heidi ,Berlin, Germany
- Dokumenter ,Fotografisk Center ,Copenhagen, Denmark
- The World of Tomorrow Will Have Been Another Present ,MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig ,Vienna, Austria
- Museo Jumex in Residence (Part 1) ,Museo Jumex ,Santa Maria Tulpeltac, Mexico City, Mexico
- Museo Jumex in Residence (Part 1) ,South London Gallery ,London, UK
- Good Mom/Bad Mom: Unraveling the Mother Myth ,Centraal Museum ,Utrecht, Netherlands
- A Vanished Wholeness ,Modern Art, Paris ,Paris, France
- Uncanny ,National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) ,Downtown, Washington D.C., District Of Columbia, USA
2024
- Juxtapositions: Then and Now ,Stevenson, Cape Town ,Cape Town, South Africa
- When Works Meet ,Stevenson, Cape Town ,Cape Town, South Africa
- From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2024 ,CCS Bard, Hessel Museum of Art ,Annandale On Hudson, New York, USA
- A Requiem For Humanity: Dehumanisations, Power And Black Futurisms ,La Casa Encendida ,Madrid, Spain
- Narrative Obsession In The Post-Colonial Psyche ,The 8th Floor ,Gramercy Park, New York, USA
- The Infinite Woman ,Villa Carmignac ,Hyères, France
- The VERBUND COLLECTION, Vienna, Celebrates Its Twentieth Anniversary ,Albertina Museum ,Vienna, Austria
2023
- I Miss Myself The Most ,Stevenson, Johannesburg ,Johannesburg, South Africa
- The Artist List ,Stevenson, Cape Town ,Cape Town, South Africa
- Her Voice - Echoes of Chantal Akerman ,FOMU Fotomuseum Antwerp ,Antwerp, Belgium
- Paris ,Modern Art, Paris ,Paris, France
- L鈥檃utre musée, the treasures of a major contemporary art collection ,Frac Bretagne ,Rennes, France
- Stranger in the Village: Reflecting on Racism with James Baldwin ,Aargauer Kunsthaus ,Aarau, Switzerland
- Unruly Bodies ,Goldsmiths CCA ,St. James's, London, UK
- Before Tomorrow. Astrup Fearnley Museet 30 Years ,Astrup Fearnley Museet ,Oslo, Norway
- Down North / Contemporary Art in the Arctic ,Bildmuseet, Umeå University ,Umea, Sweden
- Picasso: Untitled ,La Casa Encendida ,Madrid, Spain
- EMOP, Rethinking Identity: Je est un autre ,MNHA Luxembourg ,Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Black Venus ,MoAD, Museum of the African Diaspora ,San Francisco, California, USA
- The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2023 ,The Photographers' Gallery ,London, UK
- Flight ,Malmö Konsthall ,Malmö, Sweden
- Tracing Fragments ,Gerðarsafn Art Museum ,Kopavogur, Iceland
- Chrysalis: The Butterfly Dream ,Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève ,Geneva, Switzerland
2022
- Pattern Recognition: Revisiting the Municipal Collection Erlangen ,Kunstpalais Erlangen ,Erlangen, Germany
- Ghostscript ,Modern Art, London (Helmet Row) ,London, UK
- Down 袠orth: North Atlantic Triennial ,Reykjavík Art Museum, Hafnarhús ,Reykjavík, Iceland
- Changes ,MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig ,Vienna, Austria
- Munch Triennale: The Machine is Us ,Munch Museum ,Oslo, Norway
- Afterimage ,MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Arts ,Rome, Italy
- Customs ,A4 Arts Foundation ,Cape Town, South Africa
- Corpus ,Henie Onstad Art Center ,Høvikodden, Norway
- To Light, Shadow and Dust ,Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin ,Berlin, Germany
- Give and Take ,Hamburger Kunsthalle ,Hamburg, Germany
- Breaking Up ,Phoenix Art Museum ,Phoenix, Arizona, USA
- Women and Change ,Arken Museum of Modern Art ,Ishøj, Denmark
- In No Order ,VI, VII ,Oslo, Norway
- How Rest the Brave ,Nest ,The Hague, Netherlands
2021
- Works on paper ,Stevenson, Cape Town ,Cape Town, South Africa
- Maternar ,MUAC, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo ,Mexico City, Mexico
- Not Without Joy ,Galerie Rudolfinum ,Prague, Czech Republic
- Rested ,Nicola Vassell Gallery ,New York, USA
- Jack Davison, Omer Fast, and Frida Orupabo ,Deichtorhallen Hamburg ,Hamburg, Germany
- Future Generation Art Prize 2021 ,PinchukArtCentre ,Kiev, Ukraine
- My Whole Body Changed Into Something Else ,Stevenson, Johannesburg ,Johannesburg, South Africa
- My Whole Body Changed Into Something Else ,Stevenson, Cape Town ,Cape Town, South Africa
- Mother! ,Louisiana Museum of Modern Art ,Humlebæk, Denmark