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LEYKUN GIRMA

ለይኩን ግርማ

Personal Address

Mob +251-911-464811
P.O.Box 54815 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
E-Mail leykungirma@gmail.com
Web www.leykunart.com
Facebook www.facecbook.com/leykunart
Instagram www.instagram.com/leykungirma

Educational Background

• Yekatit 12 High School Art Club Certificate (1997–2000)
• Addis Ababa University, Ale School of Fine Arts and Design (2002–2004)
• Diploma in Fine Arts (Painting), Teferi Mekonen Technical and Vocational Training College
(2007–2009)
• Bachelor’s Degree, E O T C Holy Trinity Theological University College (2019)
• Master of art in philology, E O T C Holy Trinity Theological University (2025)Teaching & Memberships
• Instructor, Fine Arts Department, Teferi Mekonen College (2021–2025)
• Member, Ethiopian Visual Arts Association
• Co-founder & Member, Abrak Art Gallery (abrakartgallery.com)

Selected Group Exhibition

  • Yekatit 12 high school art club (2000)
  • 2003 at Pushkin/Russian Cultural Center.
  • 2004 at Habesha Art Gallery;
  • 2005 at Habesha Art Gallery; Selected Group Exhibition
  • 2007 at the Alliance Ethio-Frances
  • 2007 at Addis Abeba University Ale School of Fine Arts & Design
  • 2008 At in Timeret Le-Hiwot Ethiopia Association Art Gallery
  • 2008’s “Addis Ababa Art Exhibition For Ethiopian Millennium” was organized by the ECA and UNESCO.
  • 2009 Exhibition of Fine Arts at Entoto Technical and Vocational Training College
  • 2010 at the Haile G/Selasse Hotel the second branch of Habesha Art Gallery
  • 2010 Timeret Le-Hiwot Ethiopia Association Art Gallery Cartoon Art Exhibition
  • 2011 Ethiopia National Theater Art Gallery
  • 2011 Cartoon Art Exhibition in Nikat Art Gallery
  • 2011 “Art of Ethiopia 2011” at the Sheraton Addis.
  • 2012m “Yetibeb Ashara” was displayed in the National Museum Art Gallery.
  • 2012 “Free Art Felega II” was held in Hamburg, Germany.
  • 2012 Nikat Art Gallery hosted a Cartoon Art Exhibition.
  • 2012 (ENAID), (ILO), and (FENAPD) organized an art exhibition event at the Hilton Hotel.
  • 2012 “Art of Ethiopia 2012” was held in Sheraton Addis.
  • 2013 Sheraton Addis With the title “Art of Ethiopia 2013”
  • 2013 Timret Le Hiwot Ethiopia Association Art Gallery Cartoon Art Exhibition
  • 2014 at Ethiopian National Museum Art Gallery in titled “Fine Arts Section”.
  • 2014 Ethiopia National Museum Art Gallery Titled “Renaissance Dam”
  • 2014 In Radisson Blue Hotel Titled “Hiber 1”
  • 2014 In Monarch Hotel Titled “Hiber 2”
  • 2016 In Laphto Art Gallery Titled “Hexagon”
  • 2018 In Ethiopian Millennium Hell Prepared by Ethiopian Visual Art Association.
  • 2019, Timret Le Hiwot Ethiopia and ATRONUS Art Studio organized a cartoon artwork with the title “Migration” at the GIZ art gallery.
  • 2019 At Gravit Art Gallery In Nairobi, Kenya.
  • 2019 “Art of Ethiopia 2019” was hosted in the Sheraton Addis Hotel.
  • 2019 at St. George Art Gallery titled “Contemporary Art Exhibition”
  • 2020 The online platform Art and About Africa, which is committed to assisting artists residing and working throughout the African Continent, created the crowd-funded art initiative
  • 2020 I Participated in Art: An Essential Need (Arten). This crowdfunding campaign aims to right away give emergency grants to African artists.
  • 2021 Group Art Exhibition by Moroccan and Ethiopian Artists on Saturday 30 October 2021 At St. George Golla Art Gallery.
  • 2022 AOA group art exhibition by Eleven Ethiopian Artists collaboration SHARE-PLUS with Abrak Art Gallery December 2022.
  • 2023 Imagine Rotary Addis ART EXHIBITION District Wide Charity Event Gathering artists from around the District in raising funds for “END POLIO for GOOD” On 23rd Feb – 4th Mar
  • 2023 Addis Ababa, Alliance Ethio-Française.
  • 2023 Hibir art group prepared the 5th ‘1888’ ADWA annual group art exhibition at Abrak Art Gallery on February 25, 2023.
  • 2023 the “AFRICAN IDENTITY ART EXHIBITION “was organized by the AFRICA DAY INITIATIVE / ADI from May 22-25/2023 at UN/ECA( Economic Commission for Africa) Hall.
  • 2023 in A Group Art Exhibition By 35 Prominent Ethiopian Artists, At the Ethiopian Metropolitan Art Gallery. December 8th
  • • 2024
    o Pean and Peace, Cartoon art exhibition, Addis Ababa University, Ale School of Fine Arts &
    Design
    o Don’t be square, art exhibition, Akka project, Vince, Italy
    o Tayitu,art exhibition, Tayitu cultural and educational center
    • 2025 – Art of Ethiopia, Sheraton Addis Hotel
    • 2026
    o The space that shapes us, art exhibition, Kuriftu restaurant Africa village
    o Artawi art gallery

Selected Solo Exhibitions

  • 2006 Intitule “Culture and Environment” In Habesha Art Gallery
  • 2008 Intitule “Green Beauty” In Temret Le-Heiwot Ethiopia Art Gallery
  • 2011 Intitule “Sabawi” In Ethiopia National Theatre Art Gallery

Selected Events and Workshops

  • 2008, the workshop “Free Art Felega II” was organized by the German Cultural Center /Goethe-Institut/.
  • 2009, Temret Le-Heiot Association collaborated with Atronus Art Studio to organize the first “Kilos Street Art” workshop to educate the public about HIV/AIDS.
  • 2010, Atronus Art Studio organized a second workshop titled “Kilos Street Art” in collaboration with Rotary Clubs, with the same goal as the first workshop.
  • 2010 the workshop was titled ABRO ETHIOPIA ARTISTS CAPACITY BUILING WORKSHOP. Abro Ethiopia and the Asni Art Village Team of the Goethe-Institut Addis Abeba coordinated the event.
  • 2012, the “ICASA” Workshop was held in Millennium Hall.
  • 2019, he will be teaching art students at ENTOTO TVET College’s Fine Arts (painting) department.
  • 2020 The Workshop Titled “FREE ART FELEGA” Disrupt Master Project with City of Berlin Support via the Senate Department of Culture. And from Germany, a work display with a virtual exhibition for the entire world.
  • August 26, 2022, SHAREPLUS, a Korean enterprise company, collaborated with ETHIOPIAN VISUAL ARTISTS at the Hilton Hotel in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia. Workshop on the “Fair Trade” of “Art”
  • Inside the Kuriftu x Merha Artist Residency with EyayuGenet, Leykun Girma, and Selamawit Gebretsadik(2025)
    • Peace & Public Art Workshop – Rotary Club Collaboration (2025)

Award

• 3rd Place – Chemistry Open Day Competition, Chemical Society of Ethiopia (2001)
• 2nd Place – Ale School of Fine Arts & Design, Addis Ababa University (2004)
• 1st place – Entoto TVET College, Fine Arts (Painting), (2009)
• International Art Contest – 2nd Place, Sweety Saradha Arts (2020)
• Africa Day Initiative – Outstanding Contribution to African Identity Art Exhibition (2023)
• Inside the Kuriftu x Merha Artist Residency with Eyayu Genet, Leykun Girma, and
Selamawit Gebretsadik(2025)
• Peace & Public Art Workshop – Rotary Club Collaboration (2025)

Collection

• Sheraton Addis Hotel – Sacrifice (2011)
• Foreign Affairs Ministry of Kenya, Dr. Amina Mohamed (2012)
• Ethiopian Airlines – ADWA, DALLOL (2021)
• Zemen Bank – Liability of Early Age, Farewell (2019)
• Ethiopian National Museum – The Warrior Farmer (2023)
• United Nation /ECA main Hall, jan Hoy (2025)

Publication

• Selamta In-flight Magazine, Ethiopian Airlines (2011)
• Capital Newspaper – Culture & Art Review (2006)• The Reporter, “STOP – Scream the Paintings” Feature (2006)
• Fortune, “World of Art Blooms!” (2011)
• Sewasew Online Magazine, Artist Profile (2012)
• International Journal of Ethiopian Studies – Cover Art (2018)
• ARTBAAZAR Magazine, Issue #10 (2020)
• AKKA Project eBook, Art During Lockdown (2020)
• Etan comics, Hawi cover art – (2024)
• Tafari Makonnen TVET College, Trans – Generation magazine – (2025)
• Medina digital magazine, [1] https://t.me/Medinamagazine/100, [2] https://t.me/
Medinamagazine/104 , (2025)
• https://merha.co/the-space-that-shapes-us/
• https://systemagazine.wordpress.com/2025/02/11/in-conversation-with-leykun-girma/