
BIO
Ronald Abdou Ngum Kiloh (b. 1999) is a Cameroonian-born multidisciplinary practitioner whose work explores impermanent states of existence and the potential for things to become otherwise. His practice emerges through acts of transposition, allowing each idea to take the form it needs.
He completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Cape Town in 2023. Shaped by overlapping English and French postcolonial legacies, as well as Christian, Islamic, and African Traditional belief systems, his work explores how structures of identity, knowledge, and power move, shift, and are re-read.
Abdou treats objects, forms, and experiences as living configurations: capable of shifting, transforming, and taking on different states without any single state becoming definitive. Process, iteration, and relational exchange guide this unfolding, while hybrid and interactive forms allow engagement to become part of the work itself. Rather than seeking a fixed resolution, his practice is guided by curiosity, transposition, and the possibility held within a form.
Awards
2026
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Winner of Kartina Mira International Competition for Young Artists.
2023
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Peace Symposium (Art for Peace), Japan Institute Scholarship Award.
2022
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Cecil and Thelma Skotnes Scholarship Award, Michaelis and the Centre for Curating The Archive.
Exhibitions
2026
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Intercontinental Biennal, Group Exhibition, Panama.
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Kartina Mira Group Exhibition, International Youth Festival, Ekaterinburg.
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Spier Light Art Exhibition, Group Exhibition, Cape Town.
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Picture of the World, Kartina Mira Winners Group Exhibition, Samara.
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Notes on Sculpture, WorldArt Group Exhibition, Cape Town.
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Exhibit B, Peter Clarke Art Center Group Exhibition, Cape Town.
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Untold Expressions, Cape Town Central Library Group Exhibition, Cape Town.
2025
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In The Making, Emerging Artists Group Exhibition, by the City of Cape Town.
2024
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Portraits and Landscapes, Group Exhibition, Youngblood Africa, Cape Town.
2023
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A Home Group Exhibition, Curated by and for Michaelis students, Cape Town.
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Work and Play, Group Exhibition, Youngblood Africa, Cape Town.
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Peace Symposium Group Exhibition (an Art for Peace Commission), Japan Institute, Cape Town.
2019
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Art for Change Event; Kill Fear, Group Exhibition, Yaounde, Cameroon.
