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Leilah Babirye. Leilah Babirye. Born. 1985 (age 38–39) Kampala, Uganda. Alma mater. Makerere University. Leilah Babirye (born 1985) is a Ugandan artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Outed in her native country as a lesbian and underground LGBTQ+ activist, [1] Babirye's work is of large-scale ceramics, wooden sculptures, African ...
Jun 3, 2022 · Installation view, Leilah Babirye, Agali Awamu (Togetherness), 2022, in Public Art Fund’s “Black Atlantic” at Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York.Courtesy of the artist, Gordon Robichaux, NY, and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London.
Nov 6, 2020 · Leilah Babirye. By Johanna Fateman. November 6, 2020. ... Babirye, who lives in Brooklyn, is from Kampala, Uganda’s capital, which is situated in the kingdom of Buganda. Fleeing the country’s ...
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October 11 – November 29, 2020. New York. Entering Leilah Babirye’s show at Gordon Robichaux feels like walking into a solemn space loaded with gravitas—a regal court of yesteryear or, at least as I imagine it, Brancusi’s studio. This is another way of saying that the 39 wooden and ceramic works and the handful of monotype prints on ...
Leilah Babirye (born 1985) is a Ugandan artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Outed in her native country as a lesbian and underground LGBTQ+ activist, Babirye's work is of large-scale ceramics, wooden sculptures, African masks, as well as drawings and paintings on paper. Babirye has had exhibitions at the Gordon Robichaux Gallery and the Socrates Sculpture Park in New York, as well ...
Jul 2, 2022 · Leilah Babirye’s Brooklyn studio with wood and glazed ceramic sculptures and masks — many adorned with found objects — in varied states of completion. The figurative works are Babirye’s vision of a liberated queer and trans community, and the titles and works reference the clans of the Buganda Kingdom in Babirye’s native Uganda.
Leilah Babirye, Rebecca Camacho Presents, San Francisco, California . 2018 Amatwaale Ga Ssekabaka Mwanga II (The Empire of King Mwanga II), Gordon Robichaux, New York. Group Exhibitions (selected) 2024 Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere: 60th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Giardini delle Vergini, Venice, Italy ...
