Ikesha Avo is an artist based in London. Avo's work explores lineage, familial relationships and cultural practices across time and environments. She mostly works from life but also references personal archives, film and imagination.  Avo makes many of her materials for drawing and painting which supports the way she depicts her subjects.


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Education

2024 The Drawing Year Postgraduate Programme, Royal Drawing School
2011 - 2014 BA Hons Product Design, University for the Creative Arts
2012 Exchange Programme, Eesti Kunstiakadeemia


Exhibitions

2025  Line Shifu and Bakery Shifu, London, UK
2024 Studio Show,
London, UK

2024 Drawing Year 2024 End of Year Exhibition, Royal Drawing School, UK

2024 Best of the Drawing Year 2024 Christies, London, UK

2018 Wells Contemporary Awards Somerset, UK

Residencies

2024 Borgio Pignano, Italy
2024 Nurture Academy, UK


Workshops

2024 Picturing Dad

2024 Changing Our Hair Stories: Printmaking Workshop

Projects

2022 to present ONE&WE


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