Photo by Paul Kidero Syowia Kyambi is based in Nairobi and of Kenyan and German origin. Her practice probes issues of race, perception and hierarchical systems, gender studies and body memory. Her work examines how the past is affecting our present, influencing the ideas of the future. She is an alumnus of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and completed commissions for the Nairobi National Museum (2007) and the Kenyan Art Fair (2014). Kyambi has been the recipient of the CAD+SR research fellowship (2018-2020 cycle), the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2017) and the Art in Global Health grant from the Wellcome Trust Fund in the United Kingdom (2013). Her work has been shown in museums and art spaces which support ephemeral processes in Belgium, Finland, Kenya, Mali, United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, Germany, Zimbabwe, France, South Africa and the USA.