Christian Nyampeta works in New York, London, the Netherlands, and Rwanda, where he convenes the Nyanza Working Group of Another Roadmap School. Recent solo exhibitions include collective iterations of École du soir (The Evening Academy) at SculptureCenter in New York, at e-flux Video & Film, and at Keleketla! Library in Johannesburg. Other exhibitions include Words after the World at Camden Arts Centre in London and A Flower Garden of All Kinds of Loveliness Without Sorrow at the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig (GfZK), co-commissioned by Contour Biennale 9 in Mechelen, Belgium, and co-produced with Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels; Perdu, Amsterdam; and Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam. Nyampeta participated in Risquons-Tout at WIELS Centre d’Art Contemporain in 2020; the 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art in 2019; Dak’Art – Biennale de l’Art Contemporain 2018; and the 11th Gwangju Biennale in 2016. He runs Radius, a radio station, and holds a Ph.D. in visual cultures from Goldsmiths, University of London. He was awarded the 2019 Art Prize Future of Europe from the GfZK and the European Union Prize at the 12th Bamako Encounters—African Biennial of Photography in 2019.
Recent and forthcoming publications include essays in Camera Austria, e-flux journal, frieze, Guernica, and Metropolis M, and an interview in Contemporary And. Recent teaching activities include examinations, seminars, lectures, and performances at the curatorial practice program of University of Bergen, Norway; the Dutch Art Institute, Arnhem, Netherlands; Columbia University, New York; Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam; School of Visual Arts, New York; Konstfack, Stockholm; the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm; the curatorial training program of Para Site, Hong Kong; the Major Seminary Philosophicum of Kabgayi, Rwanda; and the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study.