Letaru Dralega
1993
Education
2011 - 2014 B.A. Social Sciences, Sciences Po Paris Europe- Asia Campus, Le Havre, France.
2017 - 2019 M.A. International Development with African studies and Project management, Sciences Po, Paris, France
Residencies & Awards
2022 Asiko Art School, Praia, Cabo Verde.
2022 UNDP Uganda Creatives Innovation grant
Exhibitions
2020 Collage Broadly Defined Afriart Gallery, Kampala, Uganda.
2020 Playing to the gallery, Afriart Gallery, Kampala, Uganda.
2022 Safety and Storytelling arts and heritage, University of Juba, South Sudan.
2023 Proof of Work, Afropocene StudioLab, Kampala, Uganda. (Curator)
2024 Njabala Foundation Annual Exhibition: An Elegy, Makerere Art Gallery, Kampala, Uganda.
2024 in transit under another sky, Moving image exhibition, Afropocene StudioLab Kampala & Kamene cultural centre Nairobi.
2024 Contemporary Art Society Uganda (CASU) collectors exhibition, Latitude Hotel,
Kampala Uganda.
Commissions
2022 London School of Economics commissioned artwork for the cover of the publication
‘Spiritual contestations - The violence of peace in South Sudan’ by Naomi Pendle.
2023 32 Degrees East Ugandan Arts Trust limited edition to commemorate the first phase of
the new building project and to raise funds for the next phase.
Workshops/ Talks
2021 'Beyond the Hold' Co-Host, Black Planetary Futures Curatorial workshop (online), Bag Factory, Johannesburg, South Africa.
2022 'Unsettling (an) embodied archive talk', Black Planetary Futures public program Dak' Art, IFAN Museum, Dakar, Senegal.
2023 Reflecting on Theresa Musoke’s Aesthetic Philosophy, Njabala Foundation
Symposium Pillars of Rectitude research project on East African women artists of the ’60s.Njabala Foundation x AWARE (Archive of Women Artists, Research & Exhibitions) Symposium Kampala, Uganda.
2024 Guest Lecturer (online) Business of Design/ Business of Creative Industries MA Summer seminar, Institute of Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship & Dept of Design,Goldsmiths University, London, UK.
2024 Sustaining the Otherwise: The Earth as a Wayfinder, experimental research forum, Lusaka Contemporary Art Center (LuCAC), Lusaka, Zambia.
2024 Co-conspirators: Solidarity in Practice, Johannesburg and online, a convening of Co-arts space to share strategies Nairobi Print Project and wherewithall, supported byOtherNetwork, funded by ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen.
2024 Finding a language for yourself, visual arts workshop, CANEX x Graduate school of fine Arts, Algier, Algeria.
Bibliography
2019 Gloria Kiconco, Nairobi contemporary: Intellectual Discourse From Artist Perspectives,
Edition 4, “Precious Metals” pg 7, 2019.
2022 Prince Claus Fund, Seed Award catalogue.
2023 Portfolio, The Weganda Review October issue.
2024 Rosie Olang, C& Contmporaryand.com, An Exhibition that Welcomed Grief at the
Door and Pulled out a Chair, June 2024.
Ongoing Research Projects
2023 - present Conflux Radio: Bisi Silva Legacy research project, which is so far comprised
of an oral history of Bisi Silva’s life and sound pieces, to be hosted on the CCA Lagos
website in a research repository and will culminate in a Conflux radio publication and a CCA
Lagos 15 year anniversary symposium and exhibition upon the reopening of the renovated
building as the ‘Bisi Silva Centre’.