Ranti Bam, 2023. Photo by Laura Stevens. Courtesy the artist.
Please join us for an exhibition walkthrough with Ranti Bam on Saturday, May 18 at 2 PM at the gallery's 291 Grand Street location, on the occasion of Anima, the artist's New York debut exhibition. This event is free and open to the public.
Ranti Bam (b. 1982, Lagos, Nigeria) pursued her formal studies in London where she received an MA from The Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design and a diploma in ceramics from City Lit. Bam was the subject of a solo exhibition titled Common Ground (2022) at Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Bucharest, Romania. Recent notable group exhibitions include Insistent Presence: Contemporary African Art (2023) from the Chazen Collection, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin, and Hard/Soft: Textiles and Ceramics in Contemporary Art (2023), Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria. Bam’s work is represented in the public collections of the Brooklyn Museum, New York; Contemporary Art Society, London; Chazen Museum of Arts, Wisconsin; High Museum, Atlanta; Victoria & Albert Museum, London. In 2023, Bam was commissioned to produce a series of Ifas for the Liverpool Biennial in the United Kingdom.