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b. 1981, United Kingdom

Ima-Abasi Okon Biography

Ima-Abasi Okon works with sculpture, sound and video to produce installations that explore exhibition-making as an exercise in syntax, adopting linguistic and grammatical structures within her installations as a way of complicating the construction of knowledge.

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Okon lives and works between London and Amsterdam. Selected exhibitions include: The Weather Garden: Anne Hardy curates the Arts Council Collection, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne; Sur— [MIX-USE COMMODITY] —plus_, _Kingsgate Project Space, London; _Parables for the BLAZER: Mahalia's EXCISTENCEandEXISTENTS-HyPE fragrant stacking balm (306.HAL), _Plaza Plaza, London; 13th Dak'Art Biennale, Dakar, Senegal; _There's something in the conversation that is more interesting than the finality of (a title), _The Showroom, London (all 2018); UNTITLED: Art on the Conditions of Our Time, New Art Exchange, Nottingham (2017); and OUTPOST Members' Show 2016, Norwich (2016). In 2018, she was awarded both the Nigel Greenwood Research Prize and the Summer Residency at Hospitalfield, Scotland. She is currently participating in the residency programme at Rijksakademie voor beeldende kunsten (Academy for fine arts), Amsterdam.

Text courtesy Chisenhale Gallery

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