Grace Ndiritu

Grace Ndiritu is a British-Kenyan (Maasai Kikuyu) visual artist, filmmaker and writer whose artworks are concerned with the transformation of our contemporary world. Her work has been featured in Artforum, ArtReview, The Guardian, TIME Magazine, The Financial Times, Elephant, BOMB, Mousse, Art Monthly, Metropolis M, Phaidon: The 21st Century Art Book, Apollo Magazine 40 under 40 list, and BBC Radio 4, Woman's Hour.

Ndiritu is a recipient of the prestigious Paul Hamlyn Foundation Visual Arts Award (2024). Ndiritu is also the winner of the Jarman Award in association with Film London (2022). Her award-winning films have been screened at international film festivals such as Berlinale, FID Marseille and BFI London Film Festival.

Her videos, textiles, photography, performances, paintings, exhibition design and architectural spaces have been widely exhibited, most recently, in her major exhibition PoriPostModern at Pori Art Museum, Finland (2026–2027) and her mid-career survey entitled Healing The Museum at S.M.A.K. Ghent (2023).

Other recent solo exhibitions and projects include Cooper Gallery, Dundee (2025), Page Not Found, The Hague (2025), Kate MacGarry, London (2023), Fotomuseum, Antwerp (2023) and Wellcome Collection, London (2023). Recent group shows include K21 Dusseldorf (2025), MAXXI Roma (2025), Lyon Biennale (2024), Kettles Yard (2023), Migros, Zurich (2023), Gropius Bau, Berlin (2022), British Art Show (2021–2023), Coventry Biennial (2021), Nottingham Contemporary (2021).

Her work is also housed in museum collections such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), LACMA (Los Angeles), Migros Museum of Contemporary Art (Zurich), Foto Museum (Antwerp), The British Council, The Museum of Modern Art (Warsaw) and Arts Council England.

She has published three non-fiction books Dissent Without Modification: The 1990s; Being Together: A Manual For Living and Healing The Museum. Her critical essays have also been published by TATE, Migros Museum, Bergen Kunsthall, Whitechapel Gallery: Documents of Contemporary Art, The Paris Review, Le Journal Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers, Animal Shelter Journal, Semiotext(e) MIT Press, Metropolis M art magazine and Oxford University Press.