British-Nigerian artist Ranti Bam was raised across two continents, clay has become a way for her to give cohesive form to her multiplicities and thereby fully inhabit the material and spiritual culture of both worlds.
A ferocious reader, Bam is inspired by a passion of etymology and metaphors. The multiple dyads of the symbolic vessel continues to be of significance. Fusing painting, sculpture and performance, Bam explores the literal and the metaphorical; inside and outside, abstraction and figuration, light and the dark, and spirit and form.
CONTACT
[email protected]
@baamtii
CURRENT EXHIBITION
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023
—uMoya, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool
2022
—Off Water II, Saint Anne Gallery, Paris
—Common Ground, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Bucharest
2021
—Off Water, Interface Art Space, Berlin
—Spring, Foundation Thalie, Brussels
—Avalanche, Pal Projects, Paris
—Medicine Man, Wellcome Collection, London
—La rencontre des eaux, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
2020
—Stasi Frenetica, Palazzo Madama, Turin
—African Arts: Global Conversations, Brooklyn Museum, New York 2019
—Strangers in Town, Kristin Hjellegjerde gallery, Berlin
2018
—CTG(R): Zimbabwe
— Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Harare
—Gallery of Small Things, Dakar Biennale OFF, Dakar
2017
—Impressions & Expressions: Drawings in Clay, Hoxton Arches, London
—London Design Festival, Africa Centre, London
—Animal Vegetable Mineral, The New Craftsmen, London
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
—Brooklyn Museum, New York
—Victoria & Albert Museum, London
—Contemporary Art Society, London
—Chazen Museum of Arts, Wisconsin
—High Museum, Atlanta
RESIDENCY
2021
—EKWC, Oisterwijk
2020/1
—Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
—Moly-Sabata, Sablons
2018
—Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Harare
EDUCATION
2013
—HE Diploma in Fine and Applied Arts (Ceramics), City Lit, London
2008
—MA by Project (Art, Design & Visual Culture), The CASS, London
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WEBSITE DESIGN + DEVELOPEMENT
Sascia Reibel & Mathias Lempart from Shortnotice.studio
RANTI BAM lives and works between Lagos (Nigeria), and London (UK). After an MA (Project by Research: Art, Design and Visual Culture How can art help man understand his inseparability from his environment aka A dialogue between the known and the experienced) from The CASS, she received a diploma on the renowned Ceramics course at City Lit. She has completed residencies at Moly Sabata (Sablons),Cite Internationale des Arts (Paris) and EKWC (Ositerwijk). In 2018, she participated in Bisi Silva’s group show (The Gallery of Small Things) in the Dakar Biennale OFF. Her works have been exhibited in New York, London, Harare, Miami, Lagos, Paris and Berlin and is in various collections including at The Brooklyn Museum and The V&A.
CONTACT
[email protected]
@baamtii
CURRENT EXHIBITION
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023
—uMoya, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool
2022
—Off Water II, Saint Anne Gallery, Paris
—Common Ground, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Bucharest
2021
—Off Water, Interface Art Space, Berlin
—Spring, Foundation Thalie, Brussels
—Avalanche, Pal Projects, Paris
—Medicine Man, Wellcome Collection, London
—La rencontre des eaux, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
2020
—Stasi Frenetica, Palazzo Madama, Turin
—African Arts: Global Conversations, Brooklyn Museum, New York 2019
—Strangers in Town, Kristin Hjellegjerde gallery, Berlin
2018
—CTG(R): Zimbabwe
— Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Harare
—Gallery of Small Things, Dakar Biennale OFF, Dakar
2017
—Impressions & Expressions: Drawings in Clay, Hoxton Arches, London
—London Design Festival, Africa Centre, London
—Animal Vegetable Mineral, The New Craftsmen, London
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
—Brooklyn Museum, New York
—Victoria & Albert Museum, London
—Contemporary Art Society, London
—Chazen Museum of Arts, Wisconsin
—High Museum, Atlanta
RESIDENCY
2021
—EKWC, Oisterwijk
2020/1
—Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
—Moly-Sabata, Sablons
2018
—Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Harare
EDUCATION
2013
—HE Diploma in Fine and Applied Arts (Ceramics), City Lit, London
2008
—MA by Project (Art, Design & Visual Culture), The CASS, London
IMPRINT
—This website and its content is ©opyright of Ranti Bam, unless stated otherwise. Last updated July 2022. All rights reserved.
—Any redistribution or reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited other than the following: you may print or download to a local hard disk extracts for your personal and non-commercial use only. You may copy the content to individual third parties for their personal use, but only if you acknowledge the website as the source of the material. You may not, except with our written permission, distribute or commercially exploit the content. Nor may you transmit it or store it in any other website or other form of electronic retrieval system.
—For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as purchase orders or inquiries you submit to us as the website operator, this website uses either an SSL or a TLS encryption programme. You can recognise an encrypted connection by checking whether the address line of the browser switches from “http://” to “https://” and also by the appearance of the lock icon in the browser line. If the SSL or TLS encryption is activated, data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.
WEBSITE DESIGN + DEVELOPEMENT
Sascia Reibel & Mathias Lempart from Shortnotice.studio
