Kenneth Aidoo

Kenneth Aidoo is a fine artist and a graduate of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (2019) and he has also studied film at the Nederlandse Filmacademie in Amsterdam (2015). Aidoo works across different disciplines engaging in the conversation of the position of people of African descent. By making video-installations on the African diaspora and thus engaging in the heritage of a shared history. In the portraits of his paintings the forgotten narratives of the African is being made present where the erasure of history is cannot be neglected but displayed to see the presence of Africans throughout history. Aidoo has exhibited nationally and an international show in Antwerp, Belgium. A solo at Amsterdam Art Island with Marian van Zijl-Langhout (2023). Selected group exhibitions include the. GROUPSHOW (2023) CBK Zuidoost (2023) and the ABN AMRO (2022). He has been nominated for the Royal Award for Modern Painting in 2021 and being one of the three winners in 2022. His work is held in private collections and public collection.