Kibrom Gebremedhin Araya (born 1982) is an Ethiopian artist and art educator who lives and works in New York. Starting from 2008 he worked as a lecturer at the Addis Ababa University Alle School of Fine Arts and Design in the department of Art Education. In 2016 he graduated with an MFA in Fine Arts from the same school, where he also coordinated this program in the 2017 and 2018 academic year.
As a person [of color] who recently moved to a new place most of Kibrom’s works focuses on the idea of history, personal and collective memories and on daily social life experience that he observes in his environments.
He mainly uses hand drawn animation as a medium for his art works and also he uses drawing, painting, and videos. Kibrom exhibited and participated in different solo and group shows throughout his career.
