senakirfa A.

senakirfa A. is a interdisciplinary artist, poet, and learner, born and based in Amsterdam.
A.’s work across sculpture, screenprinting, zine-making, and writing is an extension of A.’s poetry practice,
through which she explores what she terms poetic in(ter)ventions: an amalgam signifying what African-Diasporic worldmaking ushers in. She organizes collective readings and poetry gatherings that facilitate Black and POC writers, poets, and readers. 

contact:
senakirfa@hotmail.com



Solo Exhibitions

2022 - Anything is Possible, Even Nothing is a Possibility(,) at OSCAM, Amsterdam

2021 - Gazing Through the Distance (sequel), at KLAUW Collective, Rotterdam

Selected Group Exhibitions, Artist-talks, Poetic offerings and Performances

2025 - ft. with S*an D. Henry-Smith, puntWG, Amsterdam

2025 - a poetic B2B at rea(l)m by S*an D. Henry-Smith, Metro54, Amsterdam

2024 - Vocal Opacities: Continuing Fold, Heesterveld Creative Community, Amsterdam

2024 - Baby Reni: @ HOME #2, the Baby Reni Foundation, Amsterdam

2023 - Manifestation #1 Listening Session Buro Stedelijk, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

2023 - Ik Zie Je exhibition, Amsterdam Museum, Amsterdam

2023 - Unpacking Boijmans Museumnacht, Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam

2023 - END END AND, Artwell Residencies, Amsterdam

2022 - Vocal Opacities, Rietveld&Sandberg Library, Amsterdam

2022 - On Honouring Joy and Sorrow, Gemaal op Zuid, Rotterdam

2022 - Anything is Possible, Even Nothing is a Possibility(,), Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam

2022 - I Am Because You Are, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

2022 - Routes & Roots, SALWA foundation & Goethe Institute, Amsterdam

2019 - New Perspectives, Rietveld&Sandberg Library, Amsterdam

Fellowships & Residencies

2025 - Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst 3Package Deal 

2022 - Artist-In-Residence, Artwell Residencies - Amsterdam

Awards

2022  - The First Sun, Awarded with Gerrit Rietveld Academie Awards, Rietveld Review(ed)

2022 - Anything is Possible, even Nothing is a Possibility(,) Awarded with Gerrit Rietveld Academie Awards, Rietveld Review(ed)


Teaching 

2024 - Poetic Zine workshop teacher, Nowhere Foundation -  Amsterdam



Published Works & Publications

2022 - The First Sun, graphic design by Jung Yeon Kim, Amsterdam

2022 - Gazing Through the Distance (sequel), graphic design by Jung Yeon Kim, Amsterdam

Poetry and (Collective) Reading Projects

2024 - ongoing - (syntax) to Become: an ongoing Reading exercise <> Collective Read, Amsterdam

2024 - ongoing - Black transnational collective read(((ing))) of Parable of the Sower, online

2023 - ongoing - the monthly exchange of/between poetic endeavors, Amsterdam

Education

2018 - 2022 - BA - TXT (Text, Textile and Context) Department, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam 

2017 - 2018 - Precourse, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam