Orupabo was born in 1986, Sarpsborg, Norway and lives in Oslo.

Her work consists of digital and physical collages in various forms, which explore questions related to race, family relations, gender, sexuality, violence and identity. Institutional solo exhibitions include On Lies, Secrets and Silence at Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden (2024); How Fast Shall We Sing as part of the 53rd edition of the Rencontres d'Arles (2022); I have seen a million pictures of my face and still I have no idea, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (2022); How did you feel when you come out of the wilderness, Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway (2021); Medicine for a Nightmare, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (2020) and The Mouth and the Truth, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main (2019). She presented I've been here for days, her second solo show with Stevenson in Cape Town in 2022, following Hours After at Stevenson Johannesburg in 2020.  

Notable group exhibitions include The Infinite Woman, Fondation Carmignac, Hyères, France (2024); The Verbund Collection, Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria (2024); Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beats and Alicia Keys, the Brooklyn Museum, USA (2024); The Machine is Us, 1st Munch Triennale, Munchmuseet, Oslo (2022); Currency, the 8th Triennial of Photography Hamburg (2022); Living encounters, ARS22, Kiasma Finnish National Gallery (2022); Though it’s dark, still I sing, the 34th Bienal de São Paulo (2021); Dear Truth, Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg (2021); Witness: Afro Perspectives from the Jorge M Pérez Collection, El Espacio 23, Miami (2020); Infinite Identities. Photography in the Age of Sharing, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam (2020); the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition, London (2020); May You Live in Interesting Times,  the 58th Venice Biennale, Italy (2019); Arthur Jafa’s A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Galerie Rudolfinum in Prague, Julia Stoschek Collection in Berlin, and Serpentine Sackler Gallery in London (2017-19); Rock My Soul, Victoria Miro, London (2019); HERE AND NOW, Museum Ludwig, Cologne; and Our Present, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen.

Orupabo has been shortlisted for the 2023 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize and the 2021 Future Generation Art Prize. Orupabo is the recipient of the SPECTRUM Internationaler Preis für Fotografie (2025), which includes a solo exhibition at the Sprengel Museum Hannover in Germany and a publication.

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