Frida Orupabo receives the 2025 SPECTRUM Internationaler Preis für Fotografie, which includes a solo exhibition at the Sprengel Museum Hannover in Germany in early 2025 and a publication.
Meleko Mokgosi, Odili Donald Odita and Frida Orupabo feature in Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys at the High Museum of Art. First shown at the Brooklyn Museum, the exhibition aims to 'illuminate the renown and impact of legendary and canon-expanding artists'.
On Lies, Secrets and Silence, Frida Orupabo's first institutional solo exhibition in Sweden takes place at Bonniers Konsthall. The show comprises new collages, sculpture and film and will travel to Oslo's Astrup Fearnley Museet in 2025.
Frida Orupabo is included in The Infinite Woman at Foundation Carmignac. The exhibition seeks to 'conjure up new fantasies and give life to new female narratives, imbued with power', with the work of over sixty artists from different historical periods and places.
Frida Orupabo features in an exhibition of works from the Verbund collection at the Albertina Museum, held in celebration of the collection’s twentieth anniversary. This showing places emphasis on 'new acquisitions in the context of ‘Gender, Identity & Diversity'.
Meleko Mokgosi, Odili Donald Odita and Frida Orupabo feature in Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, taking place at the Brooklyn Museum. The presentation spotlights works by Black diasporic artists, part of the museum's ongoing efforts to expand the art-historical narrative.
Frida Orupabo is shortlisted for the 2023 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, in recognition of her solo exhibition at Fotomusem Winterthur. She currently exhibits at the Photographer's Gallery in London as one of the nominated artists.
Frida Orupabo features in Black Venus at the Museum of the African Diaspora, curated by Aindrea Emelife. The travelling exhibition offers a survey of 'the legacy of Black Women in visual culture - from fetishized, colonial-era caricatures to the present-day reclamation of the rich complexity of Black womanhood'.
Frida Orupabo is among five artists nominated for this year's Joan Miró Prize. The award recognises artists at a 'breakthrough stage in their careers regardless of age, gender or cultural identity'.
A presentation of works by Mawande Ka Zenzile, Simphiwe Ndzube,Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi and Frida Orupabo takes place at Kiang Malingue as part of a collaborative exchange between the galleries. This show marks each artist's Hong Kong debut.
Frida Orupabo participates in Down Иorth the North Atlantic Triennial at Reykjavík Art Museum, created in collaboration with Bildmuseet, Umeå and the Portland Museum of Art. The commissioned works 'deal with the changes that are taking place in society, nature and the ecosystem in the Arctic at the beginning of the 21st century'.
Frida Orupabo is included in Pattern Recognition: Revisiting the Municipal Collection at Kunstpalais Erlangen. Spanning over 50 years of international contemporary art, the exhibition 'documents formative trends in art of the postwar period and thus sees itself as a history of ideas in art after 1945'.
Frida Orupabo features in Do we dream under the same sky, the 2022 Okayama Art Summit, supported by the Okayama Orient Museum. Artistic director, Rirkrit Tiravanija, writes, 'The dream here, is to dream in a sky of difference, in a sky of multiplicity, of narratives of representation that is peripheral to the western canon'.
Frida Orupabo presents a selection of newly commissioned works at The Machine is Us, the inaugural Munch Triennale, taking place at Munchmuseet. Her new collages, featuring archival photos with visible watermarks, investigate 'copyright and the way profits continue to be made from colonialism and other peoples’ histories'.
Moshekwa Langa and Frida Orupabo feature in Customs at A4 Arts Foundation curated by Sumayya Vally and Josh Ginsburg. The exhibition 'wonders after practices of maintenance, both static and dynamic. What is it that invites us to use, and to be of use'
Frida Orupabo is among the artists selected for Afterimage at MAXXI L'Aquila. Spanning historic works and new, site-specific installations, the exhibition aims to provide 'a meditation upon memory and metamorphosis'.
Frida Orupabo presents a solo exhibition titled How Fast Shall We Sing at the Mécanique Générale as part of this year's Rencontres d’Arles. The show examines 'the process of objectifying, fixating and being othered in which photography has been an accomplice'.
Frida Orupabo features in ARS22, the 10th in a series of major exhibitions taking place at the Kiasma Finnish National Gallery. This edition, Living encounters, deals with the multiple processes of social fragmentation that are endangering life on the planet today'.
Frida Orupabo presents Closed Up Like A Fist, an exhibition of collages and digital prints at Nicola Vassell Gallery. Her selection of recent images 'confront the history of generational, discriminatory trauma and simultaneously offer recuperative possibilities'.
Edson Chagas, Mame-Diarra Niang, Frida Orupabo and Jo Ractliffe exhibit in the 8th Triennial of Photography Hamburg, curated by Koyo Kouoh. Themed Currency, this edition of the triennial stages a parcours of exhibitions at major museums and institutions across the city, publications and progamming.
I have seen a million pictures of my face and still I have no idea, Frida Orupabo's first solo exhibition in Switzerland takes place at Fotomuseum Winterthur. She presents analog collages and video works that deconstruct 'stereotypical representations, processes of objectification, fixation and othering'.
Frida Orupabo joins Kara Walker, Julius Eastman & The Otolith Group, Sunday Service (with Kanye West), and Noah Davis for Galerie Rudolfinum's latest time-based exhibition, 'Not Without Joy'.
The exhibition of artists shortlisted for the 2021 Future Generation Art Prize, including Frida Orupabo, takes place at the PinchukArtCentre. Curated by Björn Geldhof, this edition 'explores the world we live in today and how past experiences compel us to face a more inclusive future'.
How did you feel when you come out of the wilderness, a solo exhibition by Frida Orupabo, takes place at Kunsthall Trondheim. Consisting entirely of new works, the show brings 'fragmented counternarratives to things said too often and things not said often enough'.
As part of the 34th Bienal de São Paulo, Frida Orupabo presents a solo exhibition at Museu Afro Brasil. This presentation combines photographs and images from the artist's personal archive to create digital collages that explore race, gender, identity, sexuality.
Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi and Frida Orupabo are among the artists included in How to Make a Country at FRAC Poitou-Charentes. Curated by Lerato Bereng as part of France's Africa2020 season, the exhibition 'deciphers the fundamental criteria for constituting a nation'.
Frida Orupabo exhibits in Mother! at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. This large-scale exhibition revolves around motherhood, viewed through changing notions of art and culture, primarily in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Frida Orupabo exhibits in Toronto's historic garment district as part of the city's Public Art programme, ArtworxTO. The mural is the first in a two-part project, with the second work launching at the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival in May
Moshekwa Langa, Simphiwe Ndzube, Frida Orupabo, Penny Siopis, Barthélémy Toguo and Portia Zvavahera exhibit in Witness: Afro Perspectives from the Jorge M Pérez Collection at El Espacio 23. The show features over 100 works by artists from the region and its diaspora.
Frida Orupabo features in Infinite Identities. Photography in the Age of Sharing at Huis Marseille. The exhibition mixes online and offline experiences, focusing on artists who use Instagram to develop aspects of their practice.
Paulo Nazareth and Frida Orupabo feature in Though it's dark, still I sing, the 34th Bienal de São Paulo. The exhibition includes the work of over 90 artists 'claiming the need for art as a field of encounter, resistance, rupture and transformation'.
