Curriculum Vitae


Education
  • 2021 onwards:
  • University of the Arts London. PhD Fine Art Practice
  • 2019:
  • Kungliga Konsthögskolan, Stockholm. Project Studies in Painting
  • 2016-2018:
  • Konstfack, Stockholm. Master of Fine Arts
  • 2007-2010:
  • University of Brighton, Brighton. BA (Hons) Illustration 

Awards and Residencies
  • Artist in Residence, Toronto Biennial of Art, Canada (2024)
  • X in Residence, Cooper Cole Gallery, Canada (2024)
  • Artist in Residence, Wysing Arts Centre, UK (2023)
  • Speculative Ecologies/Art for the Environment, Labverde and University of the Arts London, Brazil (2023) 
  • National Lottery Project Grant, Arts Council England, UK (2022) 
  • Early Years Artists in Residence, The Serpentine Gallery, UK (2020)
  • Emergency Response Fund, Arts Council England, UK (2020)
  • Arbetsstipendium, Konstnärsnamnden (Swedish Arts Council), Sweden (2019)
  • Distributed Identities, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Canada (2019)
  • Artist in Residence, We Dey, X Space, Austria (2019)
  • Artist in Residence, The Bothy Project, UK  (2019)

Recent Exhibitions
2024:
  • Design Histories, Röhsska Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • Conversations, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK. 
  • Precarious Joys, Toronto Biennial of Art, Canada.
  • Independent Art Fair, New York
  • What We Have Become, Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives, London

2023:
  • The Reckoning, Baltic Creative Liverpool 
  • uMoya: the sacred return of lost things, Liverpool Biennial
  • A Significant Threat, VITRINE Fitzrovia, London
  • The Depths of Our History, ONCA, Brighton
  • Sounds and Stories from the Windrush Generation, Peckham Levels, London
  • we are a group of people composed of who we are, PEER gallery, London
  • Unattributable Briefs: Act Two, Orleans House Gallery, London

2022:
  • Unattributable Briefs: Act One, Staffordshire St., London
  • New Contemporaries, Humber Street Gallery & South London Gallery, Hull & London
  • NAE Open, New Art Exchange, Nottingham 
  • Shocked Quartz, Ugly Duck, London

2021:
  • Civil Olydnad solo exhibition, Vallentuna Kulturhus, Stockholm
  • Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
  • What Do You See From Where You’re Standing? World Pride, Folkets Park Malmö

2020:
  • The Future is Loading..., Shape Arts (virtual), UK

2019:
  • MYT, Crum Heaven, Stockholm
  • Härifrån, Botkyrka Konsthall, Stockholm

2018:
  • Sharing Knowledges solo exhibition, Marabourparken, Sundbyberg
  • Utopie Comme Méthodologie, Regart, centre d'artistes en art actuel, Levis, Quebec
  • I am the Night Sky solo exhibition, Sta.Daemonia, Stockholm
  • Decolonising Queer solo exhibition, DobraVaga, Ljubljana
  • Punx of Colour, 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, London
  • Vår Utställning, Konstfack, Stockholm
  • Brown Island 2.0, Konstfack, Stockholm

2017:
  • Techno and the City, ADE, Amsterdam
  • Brown Island in the White Sea, Konstfack, Stockholm

Commissions in Public Space
  • Gottsundaskolan artwork created by Grounding Future(s) collective, commissioned by Uppsala Kommun, Uppsala (2024)
  • Becontree Forever schools project, commissioned by Barking & Dagenham council, London (2021)
  • The Depths of Our History, Contemporary Art Space Project commissioned by Iniva and RSA Academies, UK (2020)
  • LDN WMN billboard commissioned by Tate and the Mayor of London, London (2018)
  • PROCESSIONS banner commissioned by Artichoke, London (2018)

Publications
  • Serpentine Galleries (2022), 140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth.
  • Chow, A (2018), Inspiration Drawn: Conversations Around Archives in Collective and Collaborative Drawing in Contemporary Practice.
  • Ed. Jagoe, R & Kivland, S (2018), On Violence.
  • Loewe, R (2016), Moving Through Borders commissioned by Bookworks.
  • Loewe, R (2016), If We All Spat At Once They’d Drown anthology ed. Wallman, S.

Collections
  • Black Cultural Archives: Claude Mckay: Queer, Black & Radical, 2015. Limited edition publication.
  • Botkyrka Konsthall, SE: ‘In This Place’, 2019. Acrylic on wood.
  • British Library, UK:
    - Conversations On Our Hair, 2015. Limited edition publication.
    - Journeys, 2013. Limited edition publication.
    - Plantain Zine, 2015. Limited edition publication.
    - Vent, 2015. Limited edition publication.
  • Emily Carr University: Moving Through Borders, 2016. Limited edition artist book.
  • Private collections:
    - Carnival #1, 2020. Acrylic on canvas, 120 x 58cm.
    - Propaganda Machine, Trinidad #5, 2023. Acrylic on canvas, 122 x 107cm.
    - February 1970, Trinidad #1, 2022. Acrylic on canvas, 190 x 75cm.
    - March to Caroni, Trinidad #2, 2022. Acrylic on canvas, 190 x 75cm.
    - For Us, 2021. Acrylic on canvas, 100 x 70cm.
    - Where It Blooms, 2020. Acrylic on canvas, 100 x 100cm.
    - The Gossip Circle, 2022. Acrylic on canvas, 170 x 160cm. 
  • Röhsska Museum, SE: ’Power Pack: Climate Emergency’, 2021. Offset litho.
  • Stuart Hall Library: Claude Mckay: Queer, Black & Radical, 2015. Limited edition publication.