After a career as a professional dancer, Djeneba Aduayom
progressed into photography and brought her love of movement
and emotive performance into her imagery and subsequent
directing work.
Drawing inspiration from her multicultural heritage, Aduayom’s
concepts and artistic expression are rooted in personal exploration of the inner worlds that reside in her imagination as a direct and instinctual result of her experience of the existing world.
In looking within and articulating creative ideas in a visual
abstraction that beckons interpretation, she hopes her works
allow the outside viewer to travel to a universe of their very own making.
Aduayom is based in Southern California.
Selected group shows & fairs:
2023: "In Bloom", Fotografiska touring exhibition Stockholm.
1-54 African Contemporary Art Fair,Harlem, NY
Distortion, Where To Now at Cultural Goods Gallery, Toronto
The New Black Vanguards, Aperture touring show at Saatchi Gallery (UK)
2022: Photo London (digital)
2021: Les Nouveaux Romantiques at Dover Street Market, Paris
The New Black Vanguards, Aperture touring show,Rencontres d'Arles
INWARD: reflections on interiority, International Center of Photography (ICP)
2019: AKAA art fair, Paris - We Are Handsome, Rencontres d’Arles
2018: INNATE: FUTURE BLOOMS x BRIDGE - Dak'art Off Biennale -
Finalist Voies Off x Galerie Number 8: Emerging Photography at Les Rencontres d’Arles - AKAA art fair, Paris