Penda Diakite | Artist

Solo Exhibitions
2023 Mansa Musso: She Is King, UTA Artist Space, Beverly Hills, CA
2020 Diary of a White Black Girl, Nych Gallery; Chicago, IL
2019 The Cutting Edge: Collages by Penda Diakite, Rogue Gallery; Medford,
OR
2018 Made In America, Substrate Gallery (sponsored by The Dean Collection); Los Angeles, CA

2018 Adama-den: Humankind, Guardino Gallery; Portland, OR
2018 Reflection, Organic Modernism; Los Angeles, CA
2015 Mixed media works by Penda Diakité, The Radio Room; Portland, OR

2015 Mixed media works by Penda Diakité, HotLips on Hawthorne; Portland, OR

Group Exhibitions
2023 Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
2023 In The Paint Lakers Exhibition, Lakers Headquarters, Los Angeles, CA 2022 The Devine Feminine, Art Box LA
2021 The Art Of Culture, Forbes The Culture x The Compound Gallery
2021 Art For Social Change, with Mastercard & Pitroda Art, Live projection
exhibitions on iconic buildings, D.C, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Chicago, NYC 2021 Truth About Me, Urban Zen, NYC
2020 Prizm Art Fair, Art Miami, Miami, FL
2020 Heirs To A Throne, The Los Warhols Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Eye To Eye, Band Of Vices Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Tina Knowles-Lawson 3rd Annual Wearable Art Gala, WACO Theater, Los
Angeles, CA
2018 God Forbid, Dame Dash Studios, Burbank, CA
2018 Femme, District Art Gallery; Houston, TX
2018 Mixed media works by Penda Diakité, Galt Gallery; Ashland, OR
2018 Sheer, Yes Creative Studio, Los Angeles, CA
2018 AND/OR Pt2, Junior High Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Mixed media works by Penda Diakité, New Profanity; Los Angeles, CA 2017 Mixed media works by Penda Diakité, Born Trendy; Los Angeles, CA
Film Screenings
2017 Film Screening Words From A Silence, Film Gallery Schräge, Kassel,
Germany
2016 Film Screening Words From A Silence and Diary of Reflection, RACC’s
Night Life: Bodies in Motion, Bodies at Rest, Portland, OR
2016 Film Screening Words From A Silence, Women’s Voices Now Film
Festival, Online
2016 Film Screening Words From A Silence and Diary of Reflection, 22nd
Annual African American Marketplace Festival, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Film Screening Words From A Silence, ‘San Diego Underground Film
Festival,’ San Diego, CA
2015 Film Screening Words From A Silence, ‘Video Guerrilha Campinas,’ Säo
Paulo, Brazil
2015 Film Screening Words From A Silence, Diary of Reflection, Striped, Un
Monde de Femmes, Bombs are Toys, ‘Attaquer Le Visible’ at La Mutinerie, Paris, France
2015 Film Screening Diary of Reflection, ‘Black Radical Imagination’ and ’Afro
PunFest, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Film Screening Words From A Silence, Positivus Festival, N Latvia,
Salacgriva
2015 Film Screening Words From A Silence, Ann Arbor Film Festival
Expanding Frames Panel Series, Ann Arbor, Ml
2015 Film Screening Words From A Silence, 25th Cascade Festival of African

Publications/Reviews
2023 Essence Magazine
2023 Black Wallstreet Times
2023 Artillery Magazine
2023 Art Now LA
2021 Artsy, 5 Artists on Our Radar This March
2021 Architectural Digest
2021 Galerie Magazine
2021 Arts Helps, An Interview with Penda Diakité
2020 Architectural Digest
2020 Galreie Magazine
2020 Cascade Festival Of African Films, Poster Artwork, Portland, OR
2020 Eleven11 Magazine
2019 BETAir, Black Entertainment Television
2019 Scholastic Magazine, Story Works featuring I Lost my Tooth In Africa by
Penda Diakite
2019 Art Reveal Magazine, cover and featured artist
2019 Agbowo Magazine, cover and featured artist
2019 Plastiq Magazine Penda Diakite Art
2018 AfroPunk Penda Diakité’s Art explores POC Plight in America
2018 LA Sentinel Penda Diakité Showcases Her Art at the Substrate Gallery 2018 African Digital Art, Art by Penda Diakite
2017 Professional Artist Magazine, Oct/Nov 2017, Pages 12-13, Interview with artist Penda
Diakité
2017 CAYLX A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, Volume 30, Pages 44-45, Art by Penda
Diakité
2017 OOB Magazine, Volume 6, pages 66-67, Art by Penda Diakité
2017 BLKTICKETCONCEPT, Interview with artist Penda Diakité
2017 The Network Journal, Interview with artist Penda Diakité
2017 Akatasia ‘All Things African,’ Interview with artist Penda Diakité
2016 Afropunk ‘Rad Creative of the day: Penda Diakité

Awarded fellowships, awards, grants and residencies
2021 2nd place winner, Art For Social Change Auction & Live projections,
With Mastercard & Pitroda Art
2019 BETAir (Artist in Residency), Black Entertainment Television
2019 The Dean Collection 20 Artists Award.
(The Dean Collection, founded by Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean and Alicia Keys)
2010 The Monarch Award; Illinois K-3 Children’s Choice Award
2007 The Children’s Africana Book Award
2007 Best Book for Young Children ALA Notable Children’s Book
2007 Notable Book in Language Arts, National Council of Teachers of English
Conference in Nashville, TN
2006 Featured Book of the Month; Read On Wisconsin