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Frida Orupabo

View of the installation On Lies, Secrets and Silence by Frida Orupabo
Photo: Bonniers Konsthall (Jean-Baptiste Béranger)

Frida Orupabo lives and works in Oslo, Norway. Recent solo shows include Astrup Fearnley Museum (Oslo), the Sprengel Museum (Hannover), Bonniers Konsthall (Stockholm), Fotomuseum Winterthur, Museu Afro Brasil (São Paulo), Kunsthall Trondheim and Huis Marseille (Amsterdam). She participated in the 15th Gwangju Biennale (2024), the Okayama Art Summit (2022), the 34th São Paulo Biennial (2021) and the 58th Venice Biennale (2018). With Ming Smith and Missylanyus, she presented her work in Arthur Jafa’s exhibition A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions at Moderna Museet (Stockholm) and Galerie Rudolfinum (Prague), Julia Stoschek Collection (Berlin), and Serpentine North Gallery (London).

Her first monograph was published by Sternberg Press in 2021. She received the SPECTRUM–Internationaler Preis für Fotografie award (2025) and the Royal Photographic Society Honorary Fellowship (2023). [Source: MOMENTA, 2025]

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