Chibụike Ụzọma
artist
b. 1992 in Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Résumé
EDUCATION
2021
MFA, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, USA.
2013
BFA, University of Benin, Benin, Edo, Nigeria.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Twelve Tickets, Galerie Mitterrand, Paris, France.
2023
To Kick A Stone, Simon Lee Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
2019
Walk On Water, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
2015
Nascence, Omenka Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria.
2012
Pleasures And Pains, University of Benin, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Retinal Hysteria, Venus Over Manhattan Gallery, New York, USA.
The World Is Wholly Inside, And I Am Wholly Outside Myself,
Galerie Mitterrand, Paris, France.
2021
Convergent Evolutions: The Conscious of Body Work, Pace Gallery,
New York, USA.
In Praise of Shadows, Lyles and King Gallery, New York, USA
In Praise of Shadows, Yale University School of Art, Green Hall
Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA.
2019
Contemporary Performance, Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa, Fl, USA.
2018
Material Gains, Stellenbosch University Museum, Cape Town, South
Africa.
Time Has Gone, Lagos Photo Festival, Lagos, Nigeria.
2017
Smokey Signals from the Groot Karoo: Connecting Spaces, Modern Art
Project South Africa (MAPSA), Richmond, South Africa.
Smokey Signals from the Groot Karoo: Connecting Spaces, Circa
Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
2016
Coriolis Effect, Memory and Migration, Khoj Studios, New Delhi,
India.
Breaking News, Art Twenty One Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria.
2015
Text and Image II; Symbiosis, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, Austria.
Platform, Art Twenty One Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria.
2014
A Question of Value, Fluc, Vienna, Austria.
RESIDENCIES, AWARDS
2018
Francis Greenburger Fellowship.
Artist in Residence Programme, Art Omi, New York, United States of
America.
Artist in Residence, The Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France.
2017
Artist in Residence, Smokey Signals from the Groot Karoo Project in collaboration with Modern Art Project South Africa (MAPSA), Richmond, South Africa.
2016
Artist in Residence Programme, Coriolis Effect, Memory and Migration, Khoj International Artist’s Association, New Delhi, India.
2014
Artists in Residence Programme, Kultur Kontakt, the Federal Ministry of Education, the Art and Culture, Vienna, Austria.
SELECTED ARTIST TALK AND LECTURES
2014
Alternative Resolutions (Modalities Behind The Front), Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien, organized by the Studio of Conceptual Art, Vienna, Austria
ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS
2024
Twelve Tickets, Galerie Mitterrand, Paris, France.
2023
To Kick A Stone, Simon Lee Gallery, and Anomie, London, UK
2021
The Yale Review, Fall. Napoleons’ Interior II, 2018, Cover Page.
2017
Moon Man Studios, Moon Man Magazine, Chibuike Uzoma, Self Portrait with Tongue out, pg 115.
2015
Text:Image / Image:Text. Photo Book Nr. 55/2015 – Fotogalerie Wien.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Kistefos Museum, Norway
Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, USA
Fotohof Salzburg, Austria
Didi Museum, Nigeria