FEMI THEMEN

Femi Themen is a British-Surinamese artist who draws from a politic of waywardness to negotiate processes of social, communal, and personal grief. Practices of placemaking, fabulating, and listening inform her living body of work. Femi primarily works sculpturally with influences of sound and image, employing modes of labour that hold historical and cultural ties to her multicultural heritage.

She received her Foundation Diploma in Arts and Design at Central Saint Martins with Distinction in 2022 and is currently a part of the undergraduate BA Fine Art program at the Slade School of Fine Art, with an exchange at the School of The Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

        Ongoing Going On, The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London, March ‘25
       
        Collecting Dust Among Other Things, THE GARAGE, Chicago, October ‘24
     
        Collectivist II, Deptford Market Yard, London, March ‘24

        The Grounds From Which We Grow, Addis Fine Art Gallery, London, January ‘24

        Papillon, Dalston Den, London, December ‘23



Selected Positions

        The Photographers’ Gallery, London – Education Assistant, November ‘23 to February ‘24

        The National Gallery, London – Guest Speaker, October ‘23 and February ‘24
          Voice 21 Conference, Allen & Overy, London— Guest Speaker, March ‘22

        Heni Talks x ARTiculation – ARTiculation Alumnus Speaker, June ‘21
        MAOKWO and Coventry University – B.A.M. Working Group Member, February to August ‘21
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