Catinca Tabacaru Gallery Collective

Ranti Bam

Ifa, 2022

In Hearthlands, 2022

Ranti Bam lives and works between Lagos and London. After earning her Masters in Art from CASS (DIssertation: Art, Design and Visual Culture: How can art help man understand his inseparability from his environment aka A dialogue between the known and the experienced), she completed a diploma Ceramics course at City Lit.

Bam’s significant residencies include her projects with Moly Sabata (Sablons), Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), EKWC (Ositerwijk), and CTG Collective (Harare). In 2018, she was included in The Gallery of Small Things curated by Bisi Silva for Dak’Art, the Dakar Biennale OFF.

Her works make part of the permanent collections of Brooklyn Museum in New York and Victoria & Albert in London.

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EDUCATION

2013

HE Diploma in Fine and Applied Arts (Ceramics), City Lit,
London

2008
MA by Project (Art, Design & Visual Culture), The CASS,
London

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022
Common Ground, Catinca Tabacaru, Bucharest; curator:
Raphael Guilbert

MUSEUM AND BIENNIAL EXHIBITIONS

2023
Liverpool Biennial (Forthcoming)
2020
African Arts: Global Conversations, Brooklyn Museum, New
York, NY
2018
Gallery of Small Things, Dakar Biennale OFF, Dakar; curator:
Bisi Silva

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022
Off Water II, Saint Anne Gallery, Paris
2021
Spring, Foundation Thalie, Brussels
Avalanche, Pal Projects, Paris
Medicine Man, Wellcome Collection, London
La rencontre des eaux, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
2020
Stasi Frenetica, Palazzo Madama, Turin
2019
Strangers in Town, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin
2018
CTG: Zimbabwe, Catinca Tabacaru, Harare
2017
Impressions & Expressions: Drawings in Clay, Hoxton Arches,
London
London Design Festival, Africa Centre, London
Animal Vegetable Mineral, The New Craftsmen, London

RESIDENCIES

2021
EKWC, Oisterwijk
2020/1
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
2018
Moly-Sabata, Sablons
CTG Collective in collaboration with Dzimbanhete Arts & Culture and Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Harare

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Brooklyn Museum, New York
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Contemporary Art Society, London
Chazen Museum of Arts, Wisconsin