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11 Dec, 20
Photograh: Andrew Esiebo
NDIDI DIKE
Brief Bio
Ndidi Dike was born in London, she returned to Nigeria to train as a painter and graduated from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, graduating with a BA degree in mixed media painting. Although known internationally as a sculptor, having taught herself to sculpt, with decades of transgressive sculptural practice.
In the current climate of contemporary politics, protectionism, nationalism and globalization Dike primarily works as a multi-media artist with a special interest in personal archives and long term researched based projects and engagement with global histories to address the pre and post-colonial historic and social-economic legacy of the enslaved, forced migration, and memory among other issues. That relates too and ties in with "Atlantic World Relations" which looks at the circulation of bodies, ideas, performances, and cultures within the context of the Atlantic world (the countries and continents bordering the Atlantic Ocean).
Her use of materiality, metaphors and objects aesthetically carry the tangible weight and implicitness of wider references and symbolisms to their former economic, social and political lives. Become active participants in immersive installations responding to the space in which the work is being exhibited and theme at hand by, weaving materials and meanings through both conventional and experimental processes.
And simultaneously engaging with geo-political policies that underwrite the control and extractive industrial complex that govern natural resource and appropriation in Africa, that investigate the global entanglements of material (dis) possession, postcolonial exploitation in the Global South, focusing on the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Madagascar. As well as displacement, living patriarchy, gender equity, the political dimensions of market aesthetics, consumption and commodity cultures, space, borders and territory among other exigencies.
For years her art has sought to address and refract the most pressing sociopolitical and economic concerns of our time through formally sophisticated and conceptually driven artworks and projects that offer audiences fresh perspectives on the present.
Her Recent Solo and Group International Exhibitions
African Modernism in America 1947-1967, St. Louis, Missouri, March 3-August 6th 2023Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Missouri March 10 th –August 6th 2023
African Modernism in America 1947-1967, - Fisk University Galleries. Nashville Tennessee October 7th 2022–February 11th 2023
Working Through An Impasse, Art Twenty One Lagos, July- September 2021
Sonsbeek20-24, Arnhem Netherlands, 2021.
LOOK AT THIS, Pinothek de Moderne, Munich 2021.
Memoria accounts of another history, Frac Meca Bordeaux France, 2021.
Lagos Biennial, Independence Building Lagos Island, Lagos Nigeria, 2019.
Prince/sses Of The City. Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2019.
Dakart Biennale, Dakar, Senegal, 2018.
Vanishing Voices special project 11th Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre Brazil, 2018.
Exafrica exhibition, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, 2017-2018, Belo Horizonte Brasil.
In The Guise of Resource Control. Villa Vasslieff, Paris, 2017.
Constellations Floating Space, Motion and Remembrance, Iwalewahaus Bayreuth, Germany 2017.
State of The Nation: New Works and Installations National Museum Onikan, Lagos, 2016.
Career Highlights
2024 Nigeria Imaginary; Nigerian Pavilion, Venice Biennale. One of eight participating artists including Yinka Shonibare, Precious Okoyoman, Onyeka Igwe, Abraham Oghobase, Fatimah Tuggar, Tunji AdeniyiJones and Toyin Ojih Odutola
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021 Working Through an Impasse; Art Twenty One, Lagos, Nigeria, July–September
2017 In the Guise of Resource Control; Sculpture and Installation. Villa Vasslief, Paris, July
2016 State of the Nation; New works and installations, National Museum Onikan, Lagos. February
2008 Waka-Into-Bondage: The Last ¾ Mile; Sculpture and Installation, Center for Contemporary Art,
CCA Lagos. February–March.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023–4 A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography; Tate Modern UK, July–January
2023 Lagos, Peckham, Repeat: Pilgrimage to The Lakes; South London Gallery UK, July–October
2022–4 African Modernism in America; Fisk University Galleries, Nashville, Tennessee; Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri; Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio, US
2021 Memoria, Tales of another story; FRAC Nouvelle Aquitaine MECA, Bordeaux France. Part of the Africa2020 Season Women Focus Program
Selected Collections
Tate Modern, UK.
Centre Pompidou,Paris
Aso Rock, Presidential Villa.Abuja , Nigeria
National Gallery of Art, Nigeria.
Private Collections, US, EU and Africa
Selected International Residencies
2022 The Politics of Selection, AiR Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, US. January
2017 Awarded Pernod Ricard Fellowship, AiR at Villa Vasslief, Paris, France. June - August
2015 Jogja Biennale XIII Hacking Conflict Indonesia meets Nigeria. November
1995 Visiting Artist in Residence, Gasworks Studios and Gallery, London & Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK.
September–November
Membership
Royal Society of Sculptors UK MRSS
Monograph
Ndidi Dike Discomfort Zones; published 2022 by Iwalewabooks, Germany
A comprehensive 261 page monograph in full color provides a thorough overview of specific bodies of work by Ndidi Dike spanning the last few decades. It features incisive texts contributed by art historians, curators, and collectors from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. Notably, this marks the first major monograph dedicated to a Nigerian professional female artist residing in and practicing on the continent.
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