Bathsheba Okwenje
Bathsheba Okwenje (born 1973) is a Ugandan visual and installation artist, who is a co-founder and member of the artist collective Radha May. She has a Masters in Fine Art from Rhode Island School of Design. Prior to concentration on her artistic career, Okwenje worked for the United Nations for fifteen years.
Bathsheba Okwenje
- Name
- Bathsheba Okwenje
- Born
- 1973
- Known for
- Installation and photography
- Education
- Rhode Island School of Design
- Nationality
- Uganda · Rwanda
- Occupation
- sculptor · photographer · conceptual artist · researcher · installation artist
- Languages
- English
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Bathsheba Okwenje (born 1973) is a Ugandan visual and installation artist, who is a co-founder and member of the artist collective Radha May. She has a Masters in Fine Art from Rhode Island School of Design. Prior to concentration on her artistic career, Okwenje worked for the United Nations for fifteen years.
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Her work engages with themes of migration, feminism, and conflict. She uses photography as part of her installation style, as well as engaging with the intersections between archive and art.
Bathsheba Okwenje studied at University of Massachusetts Amherst and Rhode Island School of Design. The recorded working language is English. Employment is recorded with United Nations. Works named in the authority record are Freedom of Movement. Work by Bathsheba Okwenje is recorded in the collections of This Is Not How.
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Key facts
• Name — Bathsheba Okwenje • Born — 1973 • Website — https: www.bathshebaokwenje.com/ • Known for — Installation and photography • Education — Rhode Island School of Design
Selected works
Selected works
• Kara Blackmore & Bathsheba Okwenje (2021) Repairing Representational Wounds: Artistic and Curatorial Approaches to Transition After War, Critical Arts, 35:4, 103-122 • Papa, Elisa Giardina, Nupur Mathur, and Bathsheba Okwenje. "An Interview with the Artist Radha May: A Global Collective with a Single Identity." Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies 31.3 (2016): 177-183.
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Bathsheba Okwenje is recorded as sculptor, photographer, conceptual artist, researcher and installation artist.
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Bathsheba Okwenje is recorded as having studied at University of Massachusetts Amherst and Rhode Island School of Design.
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