Aklilu Temesgen

Aklilu Temesgen (Born in 1980, Ethiopia), is a contemporary visual artist, who researches on African visual art, art education and globalization. Based in Silver Spring, MD, USA.  BA in painting, School of Fine Arts and Design, Addis Ababa University 2004. MA in African Studies, Addis Ababa University 2014. MA in Culture Media and Society, Lancaster University 2016.
Aklilu's recent abstract paintings create a vibrant deep rhyme in decorative narrative representation of African indigenous wisdom, culture and traditions by combining the East and West African art. Aklilu uses Ethiopian ‘Telsem’ and ‘Kitab’ art as ongoing experiment and exploration. His strong play of pattern, color, and expressive form is a result of his on-going exploration of the traditional abstract style found within African culture which interprets to his visual language. His interpretation of contemporary African life creates a harmonious aesthetic which is characterized by a vibrancy of color and movement. 
Aklilu Temesgen has exhibited his work and participated in several artist workshops consistently for the past seventeen years both locally and internationally including Ethiopia, Djibouti, Sudan, Zambia, France, Hungary, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, ...

BA in painting, School of Fine Arts and Design, Addis Ababa University 2004. MA in African Studies, Addis Ababa University 2014. MA in Culture Media and Society, Lancaster University 2016.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions
‘Open air Exhibition’ at Aklilu’s Art Studio, Silver Spring, MD, USA, Aug, 2020
'unity' at Ethiopian Embassy Washington DC,USA,  Oct, 2019
‘Aklilu Temesgen’ Artfull gallery and freaming, Washington DC, USA, 2017
‘‘Ethiopian artist Aklilu’’ Staromiejski, Cultural center,Old TownWarsaw, Poland, 2016
“Tebtanakntabikelemoch” Taitu international art center, Addis Ababa Ethiopia, 2014
5Art studio, Addis Ababa,Ethiopia,2012
Ethiopian Embassy,Paris,France,2011
‘Aklilu Temesgen’ alliance Français,A.A,Ethiopia,2010
“I am” Gojo ART Gallery A.A, 2009 
‘My life ‘Habesha Art Gallery A.A, 2007
‘Playing with color, Makush art Gallery, A.A, 2007
‘Women’s sprit’ Hilton Hotel A.A, 2006

Group Exhibitions
Washington Performing Arts Gala, Washington DC, USA, Feburary, 2020
Takataka Treasure Arts Kenya, group exhibition, Nirobi, Kenya, September 2018
Ethiopian day ’Tibebe Lazawent’, Silver Spring Civic Center, July 2, Silver Spring USA, 2017
Ethiopian Odyssey II, 2100 Timber Point, Ada Michigan 49301, USA, 2016 
Group art show with 5 art studio, CollegioEngenerio, Madrid, Spain, 2013
Annual art show, at Serenade art and food, Addis Ababa,2013
‘50 year anniversary of the African union’, Asham Africa, D...