Rahima Gambo

• Name — Rahima Gambo • Education — Columbia Graduate School of Journalism • Awards — Contemporary African Photography Prize 2020

Gambo was born in 1986 in London, UK. She graduated from the University of Manchester in 2007 with a Bachelor's degree in Development Studies. In 2008, she received a Master's degree in Gender and Social Policy from the London School of Economics. In 2014, she received a Master's degree in Journalism from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Her early work Tatsuniya (2017, ongoing) is a photography and film series taking place at Shehu Sanda Kyarimi school, Maiduguri, Nigeria, developed in collaboration with students of the school who perform in the series.

Rahima Gambo is an artist who explores the conceptual territories between photography, moving image and installation as it intersects with documentary, biography and place. Her process-driven practice is often circular and serial, where repetition and return to sites of interest are essential. Selected solo and group exhibitions include Diriyah Biennale (2026) Gasworks London (2024) Liverpool Biennale (2023) Kunsthalle Bern (2022), Stevenson Gallery (2022), Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles (2022), Biennale Mercosur, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2020), and the 11th and 12th editions of Rencontres de Bamako, Mali (2017-2019), Have you seen a Horizon Lately? MACAAL, Morocco, “Resisting Images, Images Responding” at Coalmine, Winterthur, Switzerland, Mercosur Biennial, 12th edition—Feminine(s): visualities, actions and affections, “Afterglow” Yokohama Triennale 2020, Lagos Biennale 2019. “Diaspora at Home” curated by KADIST and the Centre for Contemporary Art in Lagos, Nigeria.

Gambo has completed fellowships with the Magnum Foundation, the Open Society Foundation Documentary Photography programme, and the International Women's Media Fund. In 2020, she was named a FOAM Talent and was among the recipients of the Contemporary African Photography Prize. She was also part of the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass and the Goethe Institut Photographer's Masterclass in Johannesburg in 2017. In 2019, Gambo founded A Walk Space, her studio and a conceptual mobile art space exploring the interdisciplinary intersections of the moving image through collaborations, exhibitions and workshops.