About Me
1983, Angola
Education
BA Fine Art, The Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, London, UK 2007
Solo Exhibitions
Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim, Norway 2014
Selected Group Exhibitions
I Witnessed This, presented during the Cape Town Photo Festival, Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa 2026
Diasporas are the Landscape, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester(NY), USA 2025
Beyond Boundaries. A Collective Odyssey, Centro Cultural de Cabo Verde, Lisbon, Portugal 2025
Embodied Narratives, This Is Not A White Cube, Lisbon, Portugal 2024
Reflect: Fragments, Fragilities, Memories, Muzej Afričke Umetnosti, Belgrade, Serbia 2022
Tip of the Iceberg, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, UK 2021
“O Silêncio da Terra: visualidades (pós)coloniais intercetadas pelo Arquivo Diamang” MSN Museu Noguiera da Silva, Braga, Portugal 2021
Discursos de Colonialidade, This Is Not A White Cube/ Not a Museum, Lisbon, Portugal 2020
Taxidermia do Futuro, Museu Nacional de Historia Natural de Angola, (SIEXPO), Luanda, Angola 2019
Intersections Within The Global South, Galeria Banco Economico, Luanda, Angola 2019
Mythopoeia, Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK 2015
Interchange Junctions, Howick Place, London, UK 2014
Residencies
Art Omi:Artists, Ghent, NY, USA 2026
The Thread Caravan, Oaxaca, Mexico 2025
The Studios at MASS MoCA, North Adams, USA 2024
Pocoapoco, Oaxaca, Mexico 2021
Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts), London, UK 2014
Press
https://artomi.org/art-omi-2026-artists/ 2026
https://www.vsw.org/exhibition/diasporas-are-the-landscape/ 2025
https://indd.adobe.com/view/a36cb08b-d49b-486c-9997-2b557ade17af 2024 Expanding the Conversation of African Photography page 99-106
https://thisisnotawhitecube.com/press/135-embodied-narratives-collective-exhibition-in-lisbon/ 2024
https://www.assetsforartists.org/blog/tag/artists-in-residence 2024
https://www.assetsforartists.org/blog/welcome-2024-fellows-1/#general 2023
https://contemporaryand.com/exhibition/reflect2-fragments-fragilities-memories/ 2022
http://www.mns.uminho.pt/ 2020
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-fairs-african-galleries-launches-23-november-artsy 2020
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-15-african-artists-rise 2020
https://artshesays.com/african-women-take-the-stage-at-1-54-african-art-fair-london/ 2020
https://newafricanmagazine.com/24531/ 2020
https://umbigomagazine.com/en/blog/2020/08/17/discurso-de-decolonialidade/ 2020
https://theartmomentum.com/aicha-snoussi-alida-rodrigues/ 2020
https://artafricamagazine.org/the-secret-history-of-plants/ 2020
https://www.contemporaryand.com/exhibition/taxidermy-of-the-future-group-show/ 2019
https://pt.euronews.com/2019/03/11/arte-contemporanea-angolana-em-livro 2019
https://iniva.org/programme/projects/alida-rodrigues-anthologia/ 2014
https://hsprojects.com/project/interchange-junctions-2/ 2014
http://www.scenekunst.no/sak/forord-til-varprogram-trondheim-kunstmuseum-2014/ 2014
Awards
The Eaton Fund, UK 2024
Fellowship The Studios at MASS MoCA, USA 2024
Publications
Movimento do Aprender 8. Ano SESI SP Brasil 2023
Alternative Photography for the Contemporary Photographer: A Beginners Guide by Morgan Post. Published by Routledge/ Taylor & Francis 2022
Atlantica: Contemporary Art from Angola and Its Diaspora HANGAR Centro de Investigacao Artistica, Lisbon, Portugal 2019
A-Z of Leadership Emotional Learning Cards: Publisher Iniva ( Institute of International Visual Arts), London, UK 2015
Projects
Pollinator peer coaching program 2025
A member of The Photographic Collective 2020-2025
The Michael Nettles African Diaspora Globalization Student and Artist Exchange (MNADCGSAE) 2023
Winnie New York Men’s Spring/Summer 2023 collection Paris Fashion Week 2022
Stared in Relic 3, forms part of Relic Traveller: Phase 2, a multi-disciplinary project produced by the artist Larry Achiampong 2019