Press
.2025
“Tsedaye Makonnen Dance Performance.” Clark Art Institute / Press Room Archives, September 12, 2025.
2024
Larson, Vanessa H. “Finally, a Sweeping Look at Ethiopian Art.” The Washington Post, January 10, 2024.
Wozniak, Stephen. “Everything Old Is Renewed Again at the Walters Art Museum.” BmoreArt, February 19, 2024.
2023
Gómez-Upegui, Salomé. “American Artists and Reproductive Justice.” Gagosian Quarterly, Summer 2023, pp. 114–119.
2022
Woosley, Caitlin. “‘On Living Archives’: Tsedaye Makonnen on Collaboration and Black Performance Practices.” In the Foreground: Conversations on Art & Writing, The Clark Art Institute.
Rodney, Seph. “Discovering How Black Women Might Forge a Path to Freedom.” Hyperallergic, 2022.
Hue, Emily. “Tsedaye Makonnen’s Astral Sea: Critical Refugee Studies and the Black Mediterranean.” American Quarterly, vol. 74, no. 2, 2022, pp. 441–452.
Astral Sea. In Women and Migration(s) II, 2022. Edited by Kalia Brooks, Cheryl Finley, Ellyn Toscano, and Deborah Willis.
Dozier, Ayanna. “Tsedaye Makonnen’s Art Addresses Reproductive Healthcare Inequalities Affecting Black Women.” Artsy, 2022.
Dyschronics. Artspace New Haven Catalogue, 2022. Organized by Lisa Dent and Laurel McLaughlin.
Reclamation: Recipes, Remedies, Rituals. National Museum of Women in the Arts, 2022.
2021
Transition Magazine, Issue 132: The Black in the Mediterranean Blue. Edited by Wole Soyinka and Alessandra Di Maio
Transition Magazine, Issue 131
2020
“Contemporary Artists Reflect on Life in America,” Vogue Magazine
Lanay, Jessica. “Outstanding, Girl, You Knock Me Out: Ayana Evans and Tsedaye Makonnen.” BOMB Magazine
“What Does It Mean to Exhibit Black Excellence?,” Hyperallergic
2019
“Entanglements: 007 - Ayana Evans and Tsedaye Makonnen,” Dirt.
“The People Issue 2019: Nineteen individuals who make life in D.C. more interesting tell us their stories,” Washington City Paper
“‘Absolutely Vile’ or ‘Powerful’? Christoph Buchel’s Migrant Boat is the Most Divisive Work at the Venice Biennale,” Artnet News
“The Privilege of Proximity / Venice Biennale’s Sinking Ship,” The Seen: Chicago’s International Online Journal of Contemporary & Modern Art
2018
Hyphen American. Curated by Tsedaye Makonnen and Rex Delafkaran. Gallery 102 (February 2018).
“How An Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony Sparked Conversation About Changes in Shaw,” The Kojo Nmadi Show. 2016.