Home Participants 25th Biennale of Sydney (2026) Nahom Teklehaimanot
Nahom Teklehaimanot

Nahom Teklehaimanot
Born:
Ethiopia
Lives in:
Kenya
Nahom Teklehaimanot is an Eritrean artist whose practice unfolds through layers of image, memory, and time. Using collage and airbrush, he transforms archival fragments into fluid compositions where softness meets fracture. Airbrushed surfaces blur the line between presence and erasure, evoking dreams, distance, and longing. His work navigates the emotional terrain of migration, belonging, and the fragile persistence of memory. Beneath the skin of each piece lie ruptures, traces of departure, loss, and transformation. Both intimate and expansive, Nahom’s visual language is a meditation on the spaces we carry within us, the places we leave behind, and the invisible threads that tether us to the past. In this tension, he finds beauty, resilience, and a quiet, searching hope.