Chibuike Uzoma

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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.

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.

 

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Chibuike Uzoma (b. 1992 Port Harcourt, Nigeria), a multidisciplinary artist working with painting, photography, drawing, texts, and video, lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut. Uzoma received his BFA from the University of Benin, and an MFA from Yale University School of Art.
 

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.

 
Uzoma’s KINDER PAINTINGS, an ongoing series initiated in 2019, explore possibilities in image-making and narrative through the peculiarities of aesthetic vocabularies performing simultaneously in a non-hierarchical model. The artist intentionally avoids linear narratives within the paintings, preferring that the viewer experiences them as resolved compositions of disparate elements, limitless in their potential for interpretation and regeneration. In understanding this position, Uzoma shares a proverb circulated by elders ‘wherever something stands, something else will stand beside it.’
 
Uzoma’s first solo exhibition in the UK will be held at Simon Lee Gallery, London, in January 2023 The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication featuring contributions by Ekow Eshun, Bishupal Limbu, Kat Sapera, Chibuike Uzoma and Carlos Valladares – co-published by Simon Lee Gallery and Anomie.

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