Aïda Muluneh

Aïda Muluneh (born 1974, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) be Ethiopian photographer, educator, den entrepreneur dem know for ein Afrofuturist photography wey dey incorporate vibrant colours den body painting make she create surreal scenes.

Muluneh win de European Union Prize for African Photography Encounters den de CRAF International Award of Photography. Insyd 2020, na dem give am de Award for Photographic Curatorship of de Royal Photographic Society.

Insyd 2019, Aïda cam turn de first black woman make she co-curate de Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition, den insyd 2020, na dem award de Nobel Peace Prize to de World Food Program. To mark dis momentous occasion, Muluneh create a collection wey embodiy ein profound artistic vision. Specifically, she dey focus on displaying how dem dey use hunger as a weapon of war thru out history.

Biography
Na dem born Muluneh insyd Addis Ababa, Ethiopia insyd 1974."Aida Muluneh (Ethiopian, born 1974)", artnet. She spend ein kiddie time insyd Cyprus, Greece, de UK, den Yemen before she settle insyd Canada insyd 1985. As a teenager, Muluneh attend Western Canada High School insyd Alberta, Canada. While der, na she dey for de school ein basketball team wey na she get aspirations of make she turn a basketball star. 

She receive ein BA insyd film, radio, den television from Howard University insyd 2000. After ein studies, she work as a photojournalist for de Washington Post, den since then, na dem show ein work insyd chaw publications. She since return to Ethiopia wey she dey base insyd Addis Ababa.

Publications
Publications by Muluneh
Ethiopia: Past, Forward. Brussels: Africalia Editions and Roularta, 2009. . With an introduction and text by Eddy Boutmans and Simon Njami. Text in English, Dutch and French.
The World is 9. Johannesburg: David Krut, 2016. . Includes "A stronger light" by Lemn Sissay. In English with subtitles also in Amharic.

Publications plus contributions by Muluneh
Fiona Rogers and Max Houghton, Firecrackers: Female Photographers Now. London: Thames & Hudson, 2017. .

 Awards 

 2007: European Union Prize, African Photography Encounters, Bamako, Mali.
 2010: Winner, International Award of Photography, Centro di Ricerca e Archiviazione della Fotografia (CRAF), Spilimbergo Fotografia, Italy."Helen's Heroine - Aïda Muluneh". Royal Photographic Society. Archived from the original on 25 August 2018. Retrieved 30 August 2018.

Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
 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

Group exhibitions
 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, 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 (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, MoMA, New York City, 2018
 A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography, Tate Modern, London, 2023

 References 

 External links 

 Official website
 Biographical sketch, National Museum of African Art

Category:1974 births
Category:Human
Category:Ethiopian people
Category:Ethiopian photographers
Category:Howard University alumni
Category:Ethiopian women photographers
Category:Ethiopian contemporary artists
Category:Ethiopian women artists
Category:Western Canada High School alumni
Category:People wey komot Addis Ababa
Category:Ethiopian emigrants to Canada
Category:Ethiopian emigrants to de United Kingdom