Grace Ndiritu is a British-Kenyan (Maasai Kikuyu), visual artist, filmmaker and writer whose artworks are concerned with the transformation of our contemporary world. Her archive of over forty 'hand-crafted' videos; textiles, photography, performances, paintings and architectural spaces have been widely exhibited, most recently, in her mid-career survey entitled Healing The Museum at SMAK, Ghent in 2023. Her work has been featured in Artforum, Art Review, The Guardian, TIME Magazine, The Financial Times, Elephant, BOMB, Mousse, Art Monthly, Metropolis M, Phaidon: The 21st Century Art Book, Apollo Magazine 40 under 40 list, and BBC Radio 4, Woman's Hour.
Her films Black Beauty and Becoming Plant have been selected for prestigious film festivals including 72nd Berlinale (2022) FIDMarseille (2021) and BFI London Film Festival (2022). She is a member of BAFTA and also the winner of the Jarman Award in association with Film London (2022).
Her work is also housed in museum collections such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), LACMA (Los Angeles), Migros Museum of Contemporary Art (Zurich), Foto Museum (Antwerp), The British Council, The Museum of Modern Art (Warsaw) and Arts Council England. As well as private collections such as the King Mohammed VI, Morocco and Walther Collection, New York and Germany. Her writing has been published by TATE, Migros Museum, Bergen Kunsthall, Whitechapel Gallery: Documents of Contemporary Art, The Paris Review, Le Journal Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers, Animal Shelter Journal Semiotext(e) MIT Press, Metropolis M art magazine and Oxford University Press.