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Halimatu Iddrisu 

E-mail: halimatuiddrisu97@gmail.com 
Phone: +233557103592 
Address: Deduako, AO-K675-2017, Kumasi, Ghana. Halimatu Iddrisu (born in Accra, Ghana) is an artist currently living and working in Kumasi, Ghana. She earned both Bachelor of Fine Arts (2020) and Master of Fine arts (2024) from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). Her practice explores visibility, identity and emancipation with a focus on marginalized women and the evolving politics of the hijab. Working across painting and community-based encounters, she draws from lived experiences and collective memory to challenge imposed narratives and reclaim space for voices often silenced.

Central to her work is the hijab, which she approaches not as a fixed symbol but as a dynamic language of power, beauty and agency. Through fabrics, textures and gestures of wearing, she transforms personal and communal stories into layered visual forms that resist stereotypes and affirm multiplicity. Her practice asks: how do we move beyond the veil of misrepresentation?

How can art create spaces of healing, dialogues and freedom? Through this lens, she creates works that insist on presence, dignity and self-determination on the women’s own terms.

Her collaboration with women in different zongo communities shape the foundation of her work, informing paintings, installations and mixed-media projects that blend figuration with abstraction and storytelling with material experimentation. 




QUALIFICATIONS

MFA (Painting and Sculpture), 2024: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.

BFA (Painting and Sculpture), 2020: Kwame Nkrumah University of science and Technology.



SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025    What A Sweet Mistake    Konstepidemin, Gothenburg, Sweden. 

2024    A Tension Between Chaos and Grace    KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana. 

2023     Shrouded Mysteries (The New Norm)    A debut solo exhibition curated by Maame Adwoa Prempeh at the Nubuke foundation in Accra, Ghana. 

2023     Private Viewing    Ayigya, Kumasi, Ghana.

2021    Exposure    KNUST campus, Kumasi, Ghana. 



GROUP EXHIBITIONS  

2026    Ade’nnsada! Where Night Never Falls    Liwan Design Studios, Doha, Qatar.

2025   A Mirror on Itself   Compound House Gallery at the Folikwei Art Gallery, Accra, Ghana.

2024    Air in Zuidoost    CBK Zuidoost, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2023    Kuenyehia Prize Awards and Exhibition   The Mix Hub, Accra, Ghana. 

2022    Remnants of Our Dreams    Foundation for Contemporary Art (FCA) and 360 Projects Gh, Accra, Ghana.

2022    Woori Festival    Nubuke Foundations, Wa, Ghana.



ARTFAIRS & QUINENNIALS

2024    Unfair, Amsterdam   Represented bt CBK Zuidoost, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 

2022    Documenta Fifteen   Participated a member of the blaxTARLINES KUMASI collective, Kassel, Germany. 



RESIDENCIES

Sep. – Nov. 2025     IASPIS, Gothenburg, Sweden.                                                                                      

Oct. – Dec. 2024    Centrum Beeldende Kunst Zuidoost (CBK), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Feb. – March 2024    ArtHub Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.



PUBLIC PROGRAMS / WORKSHOPS

Nov. 2025     Henna workshop, Mixgarden, Gothenburg, Sweden.
                        Performance Gathering, Black Archives, Malmo, Sweden.

Oct. 2025     Public Talk, Konstepidemin, Gothenburg, Sweden.

March, 2024     Public Talk, Henna Session and Open Studio, Arthub    Copenhagen, Denmark. 

Nov. 2023    Henna workshop, Nubuke Foundation, Accra, Ghana.



WORKING EXPERIENCE

2023    Graduate Assistant, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana. 

2021    Teaching Assistant, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana. 




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