Aida Muluneh

(Ethiopian, born 1974)

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.

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Aida Muluneh

(Ethiopian, born 1974)

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