Immaculata Abba

Immaculata Abba is a researcher and artist whose work explores the history and manifestation of ideas that inform how Africans make a living, find belonging and create meaning/healing in our lives. Studio Styles is her vehicle for research, curatorial and creative projects that use self-reflection as a tool for individual and communal/national self-connection.

Her work has been screened, exhibited and published widely on platforms such as Le Temps (Switzerland), The Brooklyn Rail (USA), The Guardian (UK) and Jameel Arts Centre (UAE). She was a 2021 journalism fellow with African Arguments, a 2021 filmmaking grantee with the Black Art Joy project (UK), a 2022 writer-in- residence at the Library of Africa and the African Diaspora (Ghana), a research fellow on the 2022 DOCOMOMO Shared Heritage Africa project and a 2023 participant of the New York Portfolio Review. She has an academic background in history, literature and cultural theory and degrees from Queen Mary University of London and University of Oxford.