Anawana Haloba 

Born 1978 in Livingstone, Zambia Lives and works in Oslo, Norway.

Education

2002–2006 National Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo, Norway

1998–2000 Evelyn Hone College of Applied Arts and Commerce, Lusaka, Zambia Res idencies

2008 (February–April) When The Private Became Public (project), Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Liverpool, Australia

2007–2008 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten/Dutch Ministry of Education,
Culture and Science, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

2001–2002 Apprenticeship in stone sculpture, Rockston Studio 1985,
Lusaka, Zambia
Fellowships
2008 Office for Contemporary Art Norway (Rjiksakademie Research
Residency Fellowship)

2007 Ministry of Foreign Affairs/DCO/ IC, the Netherlands (Rjiksakademie
Research Residency Fellowship)

Office for Contemporary Art Norway (Rjiksakademie Research Residency
Fellowship)

Awards

2006 Res Artis, winner of a residency at the Casula Power House Arts Centre,
Liverpool, Australia

Prix spécial Franco-Allemand, Dak’art

2006, Dakar, Senegal

Solo exhibitions

2009 Aneks Gallery & Municipal Gallery Arsenal, Poznan, Poland

2008 Lamentations, Casula Power House, Liverpool, Australia

2005 Lamentations, Gallery 21-25, Oslo, Norway

Loud Silence, NSA Gallery, Durban, South Africa

2004 Senseless Wars, Dakar, Senegal

2003 Both Ways, Konse Kubili, Lusaka, Zambia, Art review in NKA Journal of
Contemporary African Art No 21, fall 2007

2000 Anawana and Milumbe at Café d’Afrik, Lusaka, Zambia

Group exhibitions

2009 MIP2 2009 Manifestação Internacional de Performance, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

53rd International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, ”Making Worlds”, Venice, Italy, 7 June–22 November

2008
Open Ateliers, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (exh. cat.) Rest of Now, Manifesta 7, Bolzano, Italy (exh. cat.)

Revolutions – Forms that turn, 16th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia (exh.cat.)

2007 Trans cape, CAPE 2007, Cape Town, South Africa

Open Ateliers, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (exh. cat.)

Still life. Art, ecology and the politics of change, Sharjah Biennial 8, Sharjah,
United Arab Emirates (exh. cat.)

The Annual Exhibition of the Visual Art (Høstutstillingen) Oslo, Trondheim, Norway

2006 Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Art, Dakar, Senegal (exh. cat.)

Afrique-Europe : rêves croisés, Ateliers des Tanneurs, Brussels, Belgium (exh. cat.)

MA degree show 2006, the National Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo, Norway
(exh. cat.)

2005 ProgMe, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (exh. cat.)

2002 Essence of a Woman, Madison Insurance, Lusaka, Zambia

2001 Women’s Eclipse of the sun, Lusaka, Zambia

African Union summit, Lusaka, Zambia

2000 Women beyond borders, College of the Canyons Art Gallery, Santa Clarita, CA, USA

Towards the National Ngoma awards, Lusaka, Zambia

Anawana Haloba
New media artist
Photo: Lillian Jonassen
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