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Painting of woman with white face-paint and red dress

Aida Muluneh

Aida Muluneh (aidamuluneh.com) was born in Ethiopia in 1974 and returned there as an adult to ‘understand Ethiopia from the inside’. With work recently featured in MoMA’s New Photography 2018 Exhibition, Being, she is the 2007 recipient of the European Union Prize in Mali-based Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie, as well as the 2010 winner of the CRAF International Award of Photography in Spilimbergo, Italy. Her artwork can be found in the permanent collection at the MoMA, The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art, RISD Museum, Hood Museum and the USA Museum of Biblical Art. Muluneh attended Howard University, majoring in Film; Aida curates and develops cultural projects with global partners through her company DESTA (Developing and Educating Society Through Art) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Aida Muluneh is represented by David Krut Projects (NYC/South Africa).

The sentiments behind the images are supposed to be things that exist within all of us regardless of where we come from. 
 

Selected Works

Two women wearing niqabs and pulling yarns from their hands
A woman wearing red clothing with a stick and a shield, on each hand, posing against a red background with a yellow map
A woman in a blue dress and face art posing in the water while multiple headshots of the same woman look on
A woman wearing blue clothing and face art posing while slightly raising her hand as two red-painted hands rest on her shoulder
Painting of woman with white face-paint and red dress
A woman wrapped in yellow tulle with her face painted and eyes closed against a black and white checkered background
A woman wrapped in yellow tulle with her face painted posing against a checkered background looking straight into the camera
A woman in a yellow dress and turquoise head tie posing against a blue background with orange floral prints
A woman with white face paint wearing blue clothing posing against yellow and white background
A shifting face of a woman wearing white clothing and a red key broach against a green background with a red floral border
A woman with face paint posing sideways in green clothing with a key broach posing against a black background with a ladder
A woman in a red suit sitting on a chair against a cloudy sky background with a hanging sepia-toned photo of herself
A woman with face paint and red clothing posing sideways against a blue background
A woman in red clothing looking outside the bus window with her hand touching the glass while another woman sits on
A bride wearing face paint under the tulle veil and white clothing against a red floral background
A boy with face paint in a white shirt with yellow bow tie, pocket square and a hat holding a flower upon a purple background
Two gold photo frames with one sepia photo of a woman while the other is a coloured photo of a woman with face paint

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