Christian Nyampeta is an artist living in New York, where he organizes programs, exhibitions, screenings, performances, and publications, which are conceived as hosting structures for collective feeling, cooperative thinking, and mutual action. Nyampeta convenes the Nyanza Working Group of ARAC — Another Roadmap School, which participated in documenta fifteen, and he is the convener of Boda Boda Lounge 2022–24, a trans-African film and video art festival. His other recent and ongoing activities include contributing to the 14th Shanghai Biennale in collaboration with Wanuri Kahiu, participating in the 58th Carnegie International, Manifesta 14 Prishtina, and the 17th Istanbul Biennial. Nyampeta was awarded the European Union Prize at the 12th Bamako Encounters — African Biennial of Photography in 2019.

In New York, Nyampeta convenes the African Film Institute at e-flux in Brooklyn, and he sits on the Board of Directors at Storefront for Art and Architecture, and is a board member of November Magazine, New York.