John Chilembwe and European missionary John Chorley. Chilembwe wears a hat in an act of defiance, as it was illegal at the time for an African to wear a hat in front of a white person. Exhibitions Selected solo exhibitions 2017 – Red Barn Farm, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden 2015 – The Unbearable Lightness of Nyau Cinema, Gallery U Mloka, Olomouc, Czech Republic 2015 – Double Feature: Nyau Cinema, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany 2014 – Sepia Rain, Stevenson Johannesburg, South Africa 2012 – Tattoo City: The First Three Chapters (with guests), Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK 2000 – Holyball Exercises and Exorcisms, Chancellor College, Zomba, Malawi Selected group exhibitions 2016 – Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK 2016 – Dakar Biennale, Dakar, Senegal 2016 – Lost & Found, Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2015 – Embodied, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark 2015 – 50/50, New Church Museum, Cape Town, South Africa 2015 – Transformation Marathon, Serpentine Galleries, London 2015 – Schema, Stevenson Cape Town, South Africa 2015 – All The World's Futures, Venice Biennale, Italy 2014 – Chroma, Stevenson Cape Town, South Africa 2014 – Dakar Biennale, Dakar, Senegal 2004 – Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Liverpool, UK Bibliography Books 2012 – Uccello's Vineyard. ASIN: B009Z48N2Y 2008 – The Jive Talker or, How to Get a British Passport. Articles 2015, Entering the Arena: All the World's Futures, Art in Culture, South Korea, and Contemporary And 2014, Great African Minds: Dr Charles Chanthunya, Peter Hammer Verlag 2013, The Museum and the Individual, essay on Meschac Gaba's Museum of Contemporary African Art, Tate Modern 2011, Der skurrile Diktator, Kulturaustausch, IFA, Germany 2010, Dr Albert Schweitzer's Troublesome Young Brother, Kulturaustausch, IFA, Germany 2010, Windmill Jive, Salz Magazine, Austria 2009, Action Bitte – Malawians at Leisure, Kulturaustausch, IFA, Germany Residencies, fellowships and awards 2015, Research fellowship, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA 2014, Research fellowship, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA 2013, AHRC PhD Research Award, UK 2005–10, The Fire Station Residency, ACME, London, UK 2004, Decibel Visual Arts Award, Arts Council 2000, Thami Mnyele Artist Residency, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Notes and references External links Kate MacGarry: Samson Kambalu Random House Simon & Schuster Contemporary And: Samson Kambalu Giles Foden, "Good news from Africa", review of The Jive Talker, The Guardian, 23 August 2008. Susan Williams, "The Jive Talker, by Samson Kambalu – Portrait of the artist as a young African" (review), The Independent, 4