Aimée Zito Lema

Visual artist Aimée Zito Lema (Amsterdam, 1982) engages in her practice with questions around social memory and the body as an agent of resistance. Zito Lema studied at the University of the Arts (UNA), Buenos Aires, the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam and holds a Master degree in Artistic Research from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. Recent solo exhibitions include: '214322' at the Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam (2019), 13 Shots, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon (2018), Imprinted Mater, Looeirsgracht 60, Amsterdam (2017) A Series of Gestures, Kunsthall Trondheim (2017). Group exhibitions include: 2 Unlimited, De Apple, Amsterdam (2018), Idiorritmias and Muestreo #1, MACBA, Barcelona (2017), the 11th Gwangju Biennial (2016), Dorothea von Stetten Art Award, Kunst Museum Bonn (2016), Horse Pistes, L’art de la Revolte at the Centre Pompidou, Paris (2016), and New Habits, at Casco, Utrecht (2014).

She was artist in residence at the Rijksacademie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam (2015-16). Her work has been supported in the last years by the Mondriaan Fonds, the Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst and the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds. Zito Lema lives and works in Amsterdam, and is currently represented by tegenboschvanvreden.

Photo: Aimée Zito Lema in her studio / Photo by Zazie Stevens