Chibuike Uzoma (b. 1992 Port Harcourt, Nigeria), is a multidisciplinary artist working with painting, photography, drawing, texts, and video, living and working in New Haven, Connecticut. Uzoma received his BFA from the University of Benin, an MFA from Yale University School of Art and was awarded the Francis Greenburger Fellowship in 2018. Uzoma’s first solo exhibition in the UK will be held at Simon Lee Gallery, London, in January 2023.
By treating art simultaneously as a subject and an object, Chibuike Uzoma’s practice engenders the image with narrative complexes and superstition of meaning — making subject matter a pretext for performance and context a fluid ground. Uzoma obscures his work in order to reveal, allowing each painting to manifest it's meaning gradually. Although Uzoma’s artistic interest diverge through places and times, it is always drawn by life and the reciprocals between humans and the human condition. Exploring pictorial illusion and the agency of the viewer, the paintings play on our proclivity to anthropomorphise and personify images.
By treating art simultaneously as a subject and an object, Chibuike Uzoma’s practice engenders the image with narrative complexes and superstition of meaning — making subject matter a pretext for performance and context a fluid ground. Uzoma obscures his work in order to reveal, allowing each painting to manifest it's meaning gradually. Although Uzoma’s artistic interest diverge through places and times, it is always drawn by life and the reciprocals between humans and the human condition. Exploring pictorial illusion and the agency of the viewer, the paintings play on our proclivity to anthropomorphise and personify images.
