Josèfa Ntjam currently lives and works in Saint-Étienne, France. She studied in Amiens, France, and Dakar, Senegal (Université Cheikh Anta Diop), and is a graduate of the École nationale supérieure d’art de Bourges, France (2015), and the École nationale supérieure d’art de Paris-Cergy, France (2017).
Josèfa Ntjam has already benefited from numerous solo exhibitions in several institutions, including Fotografiska New York, USA (2024) ; Fondation Pernod-Ricard, Paris, FR (2023) ; Underground Resistance – Living Memories, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK (2022) ; When the Moon Dreamed of the Ocean, FACT, Liverpool, UK (2022); and we’ll kill them with love, CAC La Traverse, Alfortville, FR (2022); and Allegoria, duo exhibition with Kaeto Sweeney, Hordaland Art Center, Bergen, NO (2019).
Ntjam’s work and performances have been presented in international museums and exhibitions, including Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, FR (performance, 2023); LUMA, Arles, FR (performance, 2022); Centre Pompidou, Metz, FR (2022); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL (performance, 2022) ; MAMC+ – Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne, FR (2022); Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, USA (2022); Radius CCA, Delft, NL (2022); Mucem, Marseille, FR (2021); Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbonne, PT (2022), Africamuseum, Tervuren, BE: Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, Bordeaux, FR (2021), MuCAT – Musée des Cultures Contemporaines Adama Toungara, Abidjan, IC (2022); Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR (2020-21); Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR (2020); WIELS, Brussels, BE (2020); MAMA, Rotterdam, NE (2020); the 15th Lyon Biennial, MAC Lyon, Lyon, FR (2019); and Arnolfini, Bristol, UK (2019).
Ntjam is a member of the Paris-based art and research collective Black(s) to the Future : https://blackstothefuture.com/
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Josefa Ntjam is represented by Nicoletti Contemporary and Galerie Poggi
Collections
MAMC+ – Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Etienne, France ; Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap), Paris, France; Fonds d’art contemporain – Paris Collections, France ; Fondation Villa Datris, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France; FRAC MECA Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France; FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France; FRAC Alsace, Sélestat, France; EIB Institute, Luxembourg; and Artothèque de Strasbourg, France.