Josèfa Ntjam

Ntjam’s major upcoming projects include :

• Her residency at LVMH Métiers d’Arts (Paris) in 2024
• The exhibition “swell of spæc(i)es” (working title) at LAS Art Foundation (organizing institution), Berlin, as part of the 30 projects selected by the curator of the 60th Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition in 2024 as a collateral event.

Josèfa Ntjam was born in 1992 in Metz, France, and currently lives and works in Saint-Étienne, France. She studied in Amiens, France, and Dakar, Senegal (Université Cheikh Anta Diop), and is a graduate of the École nationale supérieure d’art de Bourges, France (2015), and the École nationale supérieure d’art de Paris-Cergy, France (2017).

Josèfa Ntjam has already benefited from numerous solo exhibitions in several institutions, including Fotografiska New York, USA (2024) ; Fondation Pernod-Ricard, Paris, FR (2023) ; Underground Resistance – Living Memories, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK (2022) ;  When the Moon Dreamed of the Ocean, FACT, Liverpool, UK (2022); and we’ll kill them with love, CAC La Traverse, Alfortville, FR (2022); and Allegoria, duo exhibition with Kaeto Sweeney, Hordaland Art Center, Bergen, NO (2019).

Ntjam’s work and performances have been presented in international museums and exhibitions, including Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, FR (performance, 2023); LUMA, Arles, FR (performance, 2022); Centre Pompidou, Metz, FR (2022); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL (performance, 2022) ; MAMC+ – Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne, FR (2022); Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, USA (2022); Radius CCA, Delft, NL (2022); Mucem, Marseille, FR (2021); Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbonne, PT (2022), Africamuseum, Tervuren, BE: Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, Bordeaux, FR (2021), MuCAT – Musée des Cultures Contemporaines Adama Toungara, Abidjan, IC (2022); Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR (2020-21); Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR (2020); WIELS, Brussels, BE (2020); MAMA, Rotterdam, NE (2020); the 15th Lyon Biennial, MAC Lyon, Lyon, FR (2019); and Arnolfini, Bristol, UK (2019).

Ntjam is a member of the Paris-based art and research collective Black(s) to the Future : https://blackstothefuture.com/

Ntjam’s works are part of several public collections, including MAMC+ – Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Etienne, FR ; Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap), Paris, FR ; Fonds d’art contemporain – Paris Collections, FR ; Fondation Villa Datris, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, FR; FRAC MECA Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Bordeaux, FR; FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, FR; FRAC Alsace, Sélestat, FR; EIB Institute, Luxembourg; and Artothèque de Strasbourg, FR.