Aïda Muluneh

Aïda Muluneh (amezaliwa Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974) ni msanii wa kisasa na mpiga picha kutoka nchi ya Ethiopia. 

Anajishughulisha na kazi za biashara. pia ni mwandishi wa picha huko Addis Ababa.

Muluneh alishinda zawadi kutoka Umoja wa Ulaya katika tuzo ya African Photography Encounters na tuzo ya CRAF International Award of Photography. Mwaka 2020, Muluneh alipewa tuzo ya utunzaji na usimamizi wa picha na jamii ya wapiga picha iitwayo Royal Photographic Society.

Wasifu
Maisha na malezi yake ya utotoni yalikuwa katika nchi na sehemu mbalimbali kama vile Uingereza, Yemen, Ugiriki na Cyprus kabla ya kuishi nchini Kanada mwaka 1985. 
Kama kijana, alisoma Western Canada High School iliyopo Albert, nchini Kanada. Alikuwa katika timu ya shule ya mpira wa kikapu na alikuwa na matamanio ya kuwa nyota wa mchezo wa kikapu. Muluneh alianza kazi ya upigaji picha akiwa shuleni ila hakuitazamia ya kuwa ndiyo itakayokuwa kazi yake. Babu yake alipomtembelea na kujionea kipaji cha Muluneh, alimshauri kuendeleza kipaji chake katika Sanaa hiyo na aichukulie kama kazi na siyo fani ya mafurahisho.

Baada ya masomo yake, alifanya kazi katika shirika la Washington Post kama mwandishi wa Habari wa picha na tangu kipindi hicho, kazi zake zilionekana katika machapisho mengi.

Tangu aliporudi Ethiopia amekuwa akiishi Addis Ababa.

Dhamira kuu 
Muluneh hutumia rangi za msingi katika Sanaa yake ya upigaji picha. Rangi za mkolezo za bluu, manjano na nyekundu zilionekana kwa mbali katika michoro yake. Rangi hizo za msingi huakisi rangi za kuta za kanisa huko Ethiopia.
 
Muluneh alisema kuwa, "kazi yake huanza na mchoro, na huifikia kila mchoro kama utengenezaji wa filamu ambapo uhusika, staili, mwanga na usanifu hutumika pamoja," alisema hayo katika usaili kwa njia ya barua pepe. "

Machapisho

Machapisho ya Muluneh
Ethiopia: Past, Forward. Brussels: Africalia Editions and Roularta, 2009. 
The World is 9. Johannesburg: David Krut, 2016.

Machapisho yenye michango ya Muluneh
Fiona Rogers and Max Houghton, Firecrackers: Female Photographers Now. London: Thames & Hudson, 2017.

Tuzo
2007:African Photography Encounters, Bamako, Mali.
2010: Mshindi was tuzo ya mpigaji picha wa kimataifa, Centro di Ricerca e Archiviazione della Fotografia (CRAF), Spilimbergo Fotografia, Italy.

Maonyesho

Maonyesho binafsi
 Ethiopia Past/forward, Christiansand Kunstforening, Christianssand, [[2011]
 The World is 9, David Krut Projects, New York City, 2016
 Work from The World is Nine and 99 Series, VivaneArt, Calgary, part of Alberta’s Exposure Photography Festival, 2017
Reflections of Hope: Aida Muluneh in the Aga Khan Park, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, 2018

Maonyesho ya kikundi
 Ethiopian Passages - Dialogues in the Diaspora, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 2003
Imágenes Havana, Havana, Cuba, 2003
 8th International Open, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2005
 Body of Evidence (Selections from the Contemporary African Art Collection), National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 2006
 Spot on..., ifa-Galerie Berlin, 2008
 Spot On… Bamako, Vii. African Photography Encounters, ifa-Galerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, 2009
 Always Moving Forward, Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto, ON, 2010
 The Divine Comedy - Heaven, Purgatory And Hell Revisited By Contemporary African Artists, Museum für Moderne Kunst|Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt/Main, 2014; SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, David Krut Projects Booth, Brooklyn, New York, 2016
 I love Africa, Festival La Gacilly-Baden Photo, Austria, 2018
 Being: New Photography, Museum of Modern Art|MoMA, New York City, 2018

Marejeo

Waliozaliwa 1974
Watu walio hai
Wasanii wa Ethiopia        
Wanawake wa Ethiopia
Arts and Feminism