Ohiri + Kasinen's Medicine Man will be entering the Welcome Collection. The acquisition will form part of their collection from January 2018.
FREQUENCY FESTIVAL 2017
20.10.17 - 29.10.17
Karl Ohiri will exhibiting at Frequency Festival - A digital arts and culture biennial set in Lincoln. The artist will exhibit a greeting flag that explores the festival theme of DisPLACEment. Click Here to see the full artist line-up.
01.07.17 ARLES 2017
Exhibiting in a group show entitled Recontres a Reattu curated by Andy Neyrotti for more info and full artist list Click Here.
23.05.17 - 18.00 - 21.00 GREENWICH PORTRAITS 2017
Karl Ohiri has been selected by Greenwich University to take part in this years Greenwich Portraits. A permanent collection of portraits celebrating alumni students from Greenwich, ranging from artists, musicians to Nobel Prize winners.
19.05.17 - 29.05.17 MY GRANDDADS CAR SOUTHBANK CENTRE
Karl
Ohiri & Sayed Hasan will be exhibiting the My Granddad's Car project
at Alchemy Festival 2017 at the Southbank Centre.Click here for more details.
15.05.17 - 18.30 - 20.30 MY GRANDDADS CAR SOAS UNIVERSITY
Karl
Ohiri & Sayed Hasan will be in conversation with Raquel Perez talking about the My Granddad's Car project at SOAS University, Senate
House.
28.04.17 - 28.07.17 RIP IT UP, BIENNALE CHINA
Karl Ohiri & Sayed Hasan have been invited by Bisi Silva to present 'My Granddad's Car' at the 2nd Changjiang Biennale of Photography and video art. Click here for more info.
25.04.17 ARTS COUNCIL COLLECTION 2017
Karl Ohiri's work has been acquired by the Arts Council collection. The work is available for museum and gallery exhibitions via the Arts Council England loan request procedures.
18.03.17 - 04.06.17 TAYLOR WESSING PRIZE TOUR 2016
Ohiri
& Kassinen's Boy Scout countinues its tour to Sunderland Museum
& Winter Gardens as part of the Taylor Wessing Portrait Photographic
Prize 2016.
12.02.17 BOY SCOUT - NPG PEOPLES PICK Karl Ohiriand Riikka Kassinen's Boy's Scout was selected third place in the people's pick for the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize. To see the winner and runner upclick here.
09.02.17 ARTIST TALK @ UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH
Karl Ohiri artist talk with the University of Greenwich discussing past and present works and the MGC project to an audience of Nigerian students.
23.01.17 OHIRI + HASAN IN CONVERSATION
Ohiri & Hasan will be in conversation talking about their MGC project with Gallery curator David Waterworth. For more details or to attendclick here.
12.01.17 - 10.02.17 MGC @STEPHEN LAWRENCE GALLERY
Ohiri & Hasan's My Granddad's Car journey continues to the Stephen Lawrence Gallery, in Greenwich. For more info click here.
17.11.16 - 26.02.17 TAYLOR WESSING PORTRAIT PRIZE 16
Ohiri + Kassinenhave had a portrait selected to feature in this years TWPP. The exhibition will be at the National Portrait Gallery, London before touring the UK in 2017.
12.11.16 - 31.12.16 MY GRANDDAD'S CAR @ NAE
Karl Ohiri & Sayed hasan will be exhibiting the concluding part of the My Granddad's Car project at the New Art Exchange, Nottingham. Click here for exhibition listing.
20.06.16 RENCONTRES D' ARLES: COLLECTIONS Ohiri + Kassinen are delighted to announce that their portrait Medicine Man is now part of the Arles PhotographyCollections.
14.07.16 - 28.07.16 MY GRANDDAD'S CAR: NIGERIA Karl Ohiri & Sayed hasan are back from their trip to Nigeria. Looking forward to presenting the work later in the year.
04.07.16 - 25.09.16 ARLES 2016: TEAR MY BRA
Ohiri + Kassinen will be exhibiting their portrait Medicine Man at Rencontres d' Arles 2016 in a group show entitled Tear My Bra. Curated by Azu Nwagbogu and assisted by Maria Pia Bernardoni.
28.06.16 - 12.07.16 MY GRANDDAD'S CAR: PAKISTAN Karl Ohiri & Sayed hasan are back from their trip to Pakistanwith a piece of Sayed's grandfather's car.What an amazing journey!
21.06.16 PRIX PICTET NOMINATION Karl
Ohiri & Sayed Hasan have been nominated for the Seventh edition of the Prix Pictet Prize for the MyGranddad's Car project.
14.05.16 - 1PM SWEET MOTHER TALK: OMENKA GALLERY Q&A talk with artist Karl Ohiri about the Sweet Mother project. The motivations behind the works on display and why it was important to premiere the work in Nigeria.
06.05.16 - 21.05.16 SWEET MOTHER: OMENKA GALLERY Sweet Mother exhibitionpremieres at Omenka Gallery, Lagos curated by Ohiri + Kassinen featuring autobiographical works that deal with love, loss and motherhood.
10.03.16 ARTS COUNCIL FUNDING
Ohiri & Hasan awarded Arts Council funding fortheir My Granddad's Car Project. The Project will result in a touring exhibition at the New Art Exchange in late 2016 and The Stephen Lawrence Gallery early 2017.
01.03.16 CHENNAI PHOTO BIENNIAL
How To Mend A Broken Heart to be shown in Tender a curated projectionby Mary George featuring the works of 8 contemporary artistsclick herefor more info.