F E M I   T H E M E N

Femi Themen is a British-Surinamese artist, brought up in Coventry, currently living in London. She 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 with sculpture and sound, 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.



Education

2026    BA Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, UK – Exchange at the School of The Art Institute of Chicago, USA

2022    Foundation Diploma in Arts and Design, Central Saint Martins, UK
Exhibitions

2025           Ongoing Going On, The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London
    
                   Building Site, Slade School of Fine Art, London
       
2024          Collecting Dust Among Other Things, THE GARAGE, Chicago
     
                   Collectivist II, Deptford Market Yard, London (further details here)

                   The Grounds From Which We Grow, Addis Fine Art Gallery, London (further details here)

2023           Papillon, Dalston Den, London (more information here)



Awards

2025            The Herbert Seaborn Memorial Scholarship

2021–26       The James Lewis Foundation Scholarship 

2020            Articulation Regional Winner

2020–21       Michaela Barker Art Prize




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