Visual artist Aimée Zito Lema (Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1982) engages in her practice with questions around social memory and the body as an agent of resistance. Zito Lema studied at the University of the Arts (UNA), Buenos Aires, the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam and holds a Master degree in Artistic Research from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. Recent solo exhibitions include: 13 Shots, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon (2018), Imprinted Mater, Looeirsgracht 60, Amsterdam (2017) A Series of Gestures, Kunsthall Trondheim (2017). Group exhibitions include: 2 Unlimited, De Apple, Amsterdam (2018), Idiorritmias and Muestreo #1, MACBA, Barcelona (2017), the 11th Gwangju Biennial (2016), Dorothea von Stetten Art Award, Kunst Museum Bonn (2016), Horse Pistes, L’art de la Revolte at the Centre Pompidou, Paris and the the Centre Pompidou Malaga (2016), and New Habits, at Casco, Utrecht (2014).
    She was artist in residence at the Rijksacademie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam (2015-16), a long-term collaborator with Casco Art Institute, Utrecht (2013-18) as well as artist in residency at Het Vijfde Seizoen, Den Dolder (2011), Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam (2017), and Rua das Gaivotas 6, Lisbon, in the context of the European cooperation project 4Cs – From Conflict to Conviviality through Creativity and Culture.
Zito Lema's work has been supported in the last years with grants and scholarships from the Mondrian Found, the Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst and the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds.