Kidus Hailesilassie is an Ethiopian-American spatial artist and futurist whose work bridges film, installation, and media art. Drawing on his architectural background, Kidus explores spatial improvisation through cinema, deeply rooted in Afro-diasporic and Black expressive modalities. His practice engages with themes of collective memory and speculative futures.

2023 | 2024 IDA Pare Lorentz Prize

2023 | Venice Architecture Bienale 2023 | Guests from the future | The 18th International Architecture Exhibition | Installation designer and fabircator - Ferenj

2023 | Pitch Black Grant Winner for Uncharted Installation, currently in post-production

2023 | Guest Speaker at Cornell, Real-Time Symposium

2022 | MIT and Black Public Media Artist in Residence

2022 | Pavilion Designer, Mozz/Fest

2021 | Guest Presenter at MIT, DocLab, Co-creation Lab

2021 | Culture Archive, New Images Forum

2021 | Culture Archive, Geneva Film Festival Forum

2021 | New Images Festival, "Kandaka and the Black Pharaoh" Short Film

2021 | Designer | Pavilion proposal, Ethiopian Cultural Garden in OH

2021 | Concert film world builder, Contemporary And

2021 | Culture Archive, IDFA Forum

2021 | SCI-Arch Research Fellow

2021 | MFA, SCI-Arc | Southern California Institute of Architecture, Edge Program

2013-2018 | Designer, Memorial Park in Addis, Studio Olafur Eliasson, Studio Other Spaces