Leilah Babirye news

Leilah Babirye features in the group show, Queer Histories, at Museu de Art de Sao Paolo Assis Chateaubriand. Babirye's featured work, Nakyeyune from the Kuchu Nyonyi Nnyange (Egret) Clan, is an exploration of identity in relation to community. 

Leilah Babirye’s painting on paper, Kuchu Series (Queer Ugandans), has been selected by curator Marty Eisenberg to feature in The Drawing Center’s 2024 Benefit Auction.

Hear Leilah Babirye in conversation with de Young's curator of African art, Natasha Becker, discussing the artist's first solo museum show in the United States, We Have a History.

Robert Diament and Russel Tovey interview Leilah Babirye, discussing her inspiring multidisciplinary practice, her major solo show at Yorkshire Sculpture Park and new sculptures in the Venice Biennale 2024.

'Dreaming of Home' brings together twenty contemporary artists whose work explores the comforts and complications of queer and trans domestic life across international and intergenerational perspectives.

'Ecstatic' presents contemporary sculptures and works on paper recently acquired by the Hammer Museum.

Leilah Babirye's 'Nankumbinkalu from the Kuchu Embwa (Dog) Clan' features in 'Living Art' at the Sainsbury Centre. 

'mixed up with others before we even begin' celebrates the historical and cultural processes of creolisation as an age-old mode of world-making. The group exhibition features works that examine postcolonial histories of diversity, satirical transliteration, queer folklore, and collective feminist rituals.

'Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art' is the first large-scale group exhibition in the UK exploring how contemporary artists have used clay in unexpected ways. Featuring 23 international artists working across recent decades, the exhibition examines the plasticity and the possibilities of ceramics.

'52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone' celebrates the fifty-first anniversary of the historic exhibition 'Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists', curated by Lucy R. Lippard and presented at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in 1971.

'Set It Off' brings together work by Leilah Babirye, Torkwase Dyson, February James, Karyn Olivier, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and Kennedy Yanko. Often combining multiple elements of paintings, sculpture, installation, sound, and language, each artist in 'Set It Off' engages the monumental, the site-specific, or the immersive in their practice.

Public Art Fund presents a group exhibition at Brooklyn Bridge Park co-curated by artist Hugh Hayden and Public Art Fund Adjunct Curator Daniel S. Palmer. Titled 'Black Atlantic', the exhibition brings together new site-responsive artworks by Leilah Babirye, Hugh Hayden, Dozie Kanu, Tau Lewis and Kiyan Williams.

Coventry Biennial 2021 will take place across Coventry & Warwickshire from 8 October 2021 – 23 January 2022. Named HYPER-POSSIBLE, this collaborative and socially focussed event brings together a wide range of local, national and international artists and creative practitioners to exhibit in galleries, museums and a range of historic and community locations across Coventry and Warwickshire.

In episode 68 of The Great Women Artists Podcast, Katy Hessel (Art Historian, Curator, Broadcaster, and founder of influential Instagram account @thegreatwomenartists) interviews sculptor Leilah Babirye.

We were delighted to host a virtual talk on the occasion of Yinka Shonibare CBE's and Leilah Babirye's solo exhibitions at Stephen Friedman Gallery this summer. Chaired by Alexandria Smith (Head of Painting, Royal College of Art, London), the event looked at how these exhibitions investigate and disrupt notions of African identity.

Queer Creative podcast hosted Ugandan artist Leilah Babirye on Wednesday 16 September 2020. Babirye discusses the materials and themes that define her practice, her long journey from Uganda to the USA and her ongoing engagement with political activism.

'When Sun Comes Out' is Blank Forms' first benefit exhibition, initiated in response to the challenges raised by the Covid-19 pandemic for the arts and the performing arts in particular. The exhibition features works by over 40 artists who are collaborators or friends of the non-profit organisation, including Ugandan artist Leilah Babirye.

‘Art on the Grid’ is a multi-platform exhibition featuring 50 artists’ reflections on the pandemic at 500+ locations across New York. Public Art Fund invited 50 emerging New York-based artists to reflect on the current situation as a way to help communities process the challenges that they face together. Ugandan artist Leilah Babirye’s contribution was unveiled as the sculpture 'Namaganda owe Mbogo (Among the Beautiful Girls from the Buffalo Clan)', 2020. 

'Intimate Companions' is a group exhibition curated by Joe Sheftel and hosted by Provincetown Arts Society and Ken Fulk in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The exhibition is held at the meticulously restored, sprawling 18th-century, eight-bedroom home of Mary Heaton Vorse, a celebrated labor reporter and the grande dame of the avant-garde.

New York City's LGBTQ Community Center hosted Leilah Babirye and American textile artist LJ Roberts for a live discussion on Thursday 25 June, 10.30pm GMT. The talk is part of the series 'Dykonography: Conversations With Artists' which focuses on visual art and queer identity, with an emphasis on lesbian visibility.