Aïda Muluneh

**Aïda Muluneh** (bɛ dɔɣi o la yuuni 1974, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) Ethiopia anfooni yaara, karimba, daabia ni nivuɣ'so ŋun peentiri ninsalinima. 

Muluneh daa di European Union Prize, African Photography Encounters mini CRAF International Award of Photography. Yuuni 2020, bɛ daa ti o Photographic Curatorship pini din zani ti Royal Photographic Society.

Yuuni 2019, Aïda n daa nyɛ tuuli paɣa ŋun pahi nam Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition, ka yuuni 2020, Nobel Peace Prize nyɛla bɛ ni daa zaŋ shɛli ti World Food Program. 

## Maŋmaŋa lahabali
Muluneh nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so Addis Ababa, Ethiopia yuuni 1974. O bilim ni o daa bela Cyprus, Greece, UK, ni Yemen pɔi ka daa naan yi ti ʒini Canada yuuni 1985. O ni daa na nyɛ bia, Muluneh daa chaŋla shikuru Western Canada High School din be Alberta, Canada. O daa deei la o shɛhira gbaŋ din nyɛ "BA in film, radio, and television" shikuru yuli booni Howard University nima sani yuuni 2000. O shikuru nyaaŋa, o daatumdila anfooninima tuma *[[The Washington Post|Washington Post]]*, ka rum din nyaaŋa, o tumanima nyɛla din gili luŋ'li kam. Din nyaaŋa o daa labu Ethiopia ka be Addis Ababa.

## Tuma
Muluneh n-nyɛ ŋun yina ti pili Developing and Educating Societies Through the Arts (DESTA), ka di sɔŋdi ka o yɛligiri kali tuma.

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

## Pina
*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.

## 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

## Kundivihira

## External links
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*Biographical sketch, National Museum of African Art