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ዳኒአላ በዛበህ ዮሃንነስ

  • The Sanctuary Portal
    • Ceramic Tiles
    • Collage | A series of self truths
  • Painting
    • Magic scrolls
    • I Surrender my Body to Water and Fire
    • The Fall : “A Woman’s Descent into the Unconscious”
    • The Inner Life >> space is the place
    • album covers & commisions
  • Atopias Film Series
    • Atopias: The Homeless Wanderer
    • Atopias: I Have Left that Dark Cave Forever, My Body has Blended with Hers.
  • About
    • Bio
    • CV
    • Contact

Daniela Yohannes CV


EDUCATION / TRAINING

Illustration BA with Honours from Kingston University, 2004

Foundation Degree, Camberwell Collage of Art & Design, 2001


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

I Surrender My Body to Water and Fire, Addis Fine Art, London, 2022
The Fall: A Woman’s Descent into the Unconscious, Addis Fine Art, London, 2019 

Beyond Voudou, The Pikture Gallery, Bangkok, 2010


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

When We See Us - A Century of Black Figuration in Painting, Zeitz Museum of Contempo- rary Art Africa, South Africa, 2022
From Modern to Contemporary: Artists from the Horn of Africa and Diaspora, CFHILL Art Space, Stockholm, 2021

I am a heart beating in the world: Diaspora Pavilion 2, Presented by 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art and International Curator Forum in partnership with Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, 2021
House of Wahala Project, Texas, 2017

Untitled Black British Art, Latham Watkins, London. 2016 ST4RTER, ARTCO Gallery, Aachen, That Art Fair, Cape Town, 2016

ST4RTER, ARTCO Gallery, Aachen, That Art Fair, Cape Town. 2016

The Future of Emotional Investments, Art as an Asset Class, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Citi Bank, London, 2012
What Will Survive of Us is Love, The Invisible Line, London, 2012
Sweet Delight and Endless Nights, Great Eastern Street, London, 2010


FILM FESTIVALS & SCREENINGS Atopias: The Homeless Wanderer

Festival Black Story Arts, Gabon, 2025

Black Europe Film Festival, Minnesota, 2025

Institut Français de Djibouti, Djibouti, 2024

The Africa International Film Festival AFRIFF, Nigeria 2024

Pune International Film Festival, India 2024

Film Africa, London, 2024

Quibdo Africa Film Festival, Colombie, 2024

Ethiopian International Film Festival Ethiopia, 2024

Encontro de Cinema Negro Zózimo Bulbul, Brazil, 2024

Monde en Vues, Guadalupe, 2024

Lespri Sinéma, CinéMartinique Martinique, 2024

Nova Frontier Film Festival, NYC, 2024

Madagascourt Film Festival, Madagascar, 2024

Festival de Cine Africano – FCAT, Spain, 2024

Deep in the Mud, We Are Enmeshed in All Its Forms II, curated by Jheanelle Brown REDCAT, L.A. 2024

Regards - Festival international du court-métrage du Saguenay, Canada, 2024 Cinedans FEST, The Netherlands, 2024
Generetional Breths curated by Jessica Beshir, Rockaway Film Festival, New York, 2024 BlackStar Film Festival, Suzanne Roberts Theatre, Philadelphia, 2024

New York African Film Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, NYC, 2024


RESIDENCIES, AWARDS & GRANTS

Nova Frontier Film Festival, Best Experimental Film, Atopias: The Homeless Wanderer 2024 

Nova Frontier Film Festival, Best Emerging Director, Atopias: The Homeless Wanderer, 2024 

La DAC Ministry of Culture Guadeloupe, Project development grant, 2020
ICF Diaspora Pavilion II: Project development grant, 2019

ICF Diaspora Pavilion II : Research & Development Istanbul Biennial, 2019

 Pikture Gallery, Artist@work Artist in Residence, Bangkok, Thailand, 2010


SELECTED COMMISSIONS & FEATURES

Album cover artwork for Endlessness by Nala Sinephro, WARP Records, 2024
Artwork commission for Random Acts of Flyness: The Parable of the Pirate and the King by Terence Nance, HBO, 2022
Album cover artwork for The King by Anjimile, 4AD Records, 2023
Album cover artwork for Space 1.8 by Nala Sinephro, WARP Records, 2021
One Day Seyoum, 2001 Magazine, cover featue and interview 2021
Album cover for Shabaka and the Ancestors We re sent here by history, by Shabaka Hutchings, 2020
Folket i Bild Kulturfront, cover featue and interview, 2019
The Atlantic, editorial illustration for article, Where Fantasy Meets Black Lives Matter, 2018 

Album cover artwork for A Multitude of Angels by Keith Jarrett, ECM, 2016
Granta Magazine artwork selected to accompany literary feature of ‘Africa’s Future Has No Space for Stupid Black Men’ by Pwaangulongii Dauod 2016
Album cover artwork for Lest we forget what we came here to do by Sons of Kemet, Naim label, 2015
Nat Brut Magazine, cover featue and interview 2015

Book cover for Kiridi, by Facinet Cissé 2012 

Book cover for ConaCrika, by Facinet Cissé 2011


TALKS & PRESENTATIONS

Atopias: The Homeless Wanderer - Screening and artist talk, Colombia University Department of Architecture, as part of the course Immeasurable Sights, 2023

Invited for a public conversation with Nana Adusei-Poku as part of Il y a des histoires d’eau entre nous, a curated program respoding to Julien Creuzet exhibition at Fondation d’entreprise Richard, Paris, 2018 (event disrupted by technical difficulties).


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