Each month, join MoAD staff members as we visit some of our favorite artists in their studios to see what they’re currently working on and how their work has changed in recent years. This is a rare opportunity to hear from artists directly from their studios. We follow all talks with an audience Q&A.

Aïda Muluneh is a contemporary Ethiopian photographer known for her powerful portraits of face-painted African people in surreal environments. “The shooting process feels like a film script. That’s how I see these painted faces—as different characters void of nationality and ethnicity, like blank slates,” she has explained.

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Her photography has been published widely, and is found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art, Hood Museum, The RISD Museum of Art, and the Museum of Biblical Art in the United States.

In 2019, she became the first Black woman to co-curate the Nobel Peace Prize exhibition and in the following year, she returned as a commissioned artist for the prize.

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