Aida Muluneh
(Ethiopian, born 1974)
Biography
Aida Muluneh is a contemporary Ethiopian photographer known for her powerful portraits of face-painted African people in surreal settings. Through her intense use of color, Muluneh alters the viewer’s perception of contemporary Africa. “The shooting process feels like a film script. That’s how I see these painted faces—as different characters void of nationality and ethnicity, like blank slates,” she has explained. Born in 1974 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, her family left the country when she was an infant, spending the next decade between England and Yemen before settling in Canada in 1985. Muluneh went on to study film at Howard University in Washington, D.C. before working as a photojournalist for the Washington Post. In 2007, the artist left her family in Canada and settled in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where she continues to live and work. Today, Muluneh’s photographs are held in the collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C., the Hood Museum of Art in Hanover, NH, and The Museum of Modern Art in New York, among others.
Aida Muluneh Artworks
Aida Muluneh
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.jpg "Access (Water Life Series), 2018")
.jpg "Helima (The Distant Gaze Series), 2017")
.jpg "99 Series (Part Five), 2014")
.jpg "99 Series (Part Four), 2014")
.jpg "99 Series (Part Three), 2014")
.jpg "99 Series (part two), 2013")
.jpg "99 Series (part seven), 2013")
.jpg "Sai Mado (The Distant Gaze)")
.jpg "The 99 Series (Part One), 2014")
.jpg "Sharp are the wounds (Armenia), 2020")
.jpg "The road of glory (Yemen), 2020")
.jpg "In which we remain (Namibia), 2020")
,-2014.jpg "The Wolf You Feed (Liberte Freedom), 2014, 2014")
.jpg "The wolf you fee (Sloth), 2014")
.jpg "The Outsider Inside (série The world is 9), 2016")
Aida Muluneh
The Outsider Inside (série The world is 9), 2016
Sale Date: November 7, 2019
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.jpg "THE WORLD IS 9 (AGE OF ANXIETY)")
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