CHIBUIKE UZOMA
(b.1992, Port Harcourt)
Napoleon’s Interior I, 2018
Chibuike holds a B.A. degree in painting from the University of Benin (2013). He is a multidisciplinary artist working with photography, painting, drawing, and text. His art projects are nourished by life and the reciprocals between humans and the human condition.
Napoleon’s Interior II, 2018
Love Scene (self portrait), 2017
Through an exceptional organic process, he creates visual languages to portray both new perspectives and alternative narratives. Usually taking reference from Nigeria, African Diaspora, and the Global South, Uzoma’s artworks engage global dialogues and issues of contemporary politics, post-colonialism, migration, thought, urbanization as well as themes related to religious and ethnic conflicts.
He often adopts a layered and conceptual idea while analyzing a situation, then he paints, makes drawings or stages photographic performances to unveil his findings. His photographs and drawings are often superimposed and overlaid with materials such as court documents, stamps, signatures, paper cuttings, stencils, and prints while his paintings appear as a collage reality.
He lives and works between Ile Ife and Lagos, Nigeria.
Untitled I, 2015
