Ekene Emeka Maduka

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Ekene Emeka-Maduka (born 1996) is a Canadian-Nigerian contemporary artist, whose work draws on her Nigerian heritage and is known for its use of self-portraiture.

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Biography

Emeka-Maduka was born in Nigeria in 1996, [1] to her interior designer mother and architect father. [2] [3] She was raised in Kano, Nigeria. [2] She completed her Bachelor of Arts from University of Manitoba. [4] Emeka-Maduka has said that her experience living in Nigeria has a major influence on her work. [3] Her work includes themes of displacement and reconstructing identity, [4] and she is often the subject of her paintings. [5] Another recurring element of her work is the eye contact her subjects hold with the viewer of her paintings. [6] She is based in Winnipeg, Canada. [2] [7]

Selected exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

What is A Dream - Mirror Mirror Online Gallery (2020). [8]

Walk Back Home - La Maison des Artistes Visuels Francophones, Winnipeg, Canada (2020). [9]

1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London, UK (2020). [10] [11] [12]

Group exhibitions

Gather - Flux Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada (2018). [13]

Liminality in Infinite space - African Artists Foundation, Lagos (2020). [14] [15]

There, Here, Nowhere: Dwelling At The Edge Of The World - Kanbi Contemporary & The Koppel Project, curated by Adeola Arthur Ayoola, London (2020). [16] [17]

Awards

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References

  1. ↑ "Art 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair – Artists to watch". New African. August 10, 2020. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 "Ekene Emeka Maduka Friezes Truth and History in Her Paintings". The Art Gorgeous. July 4, 2021. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  3. 1 2 "The young Black painter exploring the nuances of normality". Voice Online. 2020-10-31. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
  4. 1 2 "Ekene Emeka-Maduka". Kanbi Projects. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
  5. ↑ "1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair" . Retrieved 2021-03-09.
  6. ↑ "Ekene Maduka". POLARTICS. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
  7. ↑ "Contemporary African art: who to buy now". Christie's. October 6, 2020. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  8. ↑ "Mirror Mirror Gallery". www.mirrormirror.gallery. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
  9. ↑ "Ekene Maduka : De retour à la maison / Walk Back Home - La Maison des artistes visuels francophones". maisondesartistes.mb.ca. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
  10. ↑ "1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair announces exhibitors, special projects and 1-54 Forum talks programme for London 2020". Art Africa Magazine. Retrieved 4 July 2021. 1-54 London 2020 will showcase the work of more than 110 emerging and established artists from Africa and its diaspora, working in a wide variety of mediums and from a range of geographical backgrounds. Three solo exhibitions have been announced: DuduBloom More (Berman Contemporary), Anya Paintsil (Ed Cross Fine Art) and Ekene Maduka (Polartics).
  11. ↑ Rea, Naomi (October 9, 2020). "Buoyed By Interest in Young African Artists, London's Only IRL Art Fair 1-54 Shows the Value of In-Person Events". ArtNet. Retrieved 4 July 2021. Polartics, a young Nigerian gallery and first-timer at the fair, found buyers for all eight paintings it brought by the Nigerian-Canadian painter Ekene Emeka-Maduka. The works, which range in price from £3,000 ($3,800) for smaller circular canvases to £12,000 ($15,500) for larger ones, are part of a series called “St. Agnes” depicting the artist’s experience at an all-girls’ Catholic boarding school in Nigeria.
  12. ↑ Shaw, Anny (October 9, 2020). "'If you're coming to buy, you have two hours to do it': what it's like at London's real-life 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 4 July 2021. Its solo show of paintings of life at the Catholic boarding school St Agnes by the Canadian-Nigerian artist Ekene Emeka Maduka almost sold out within the first two hours (prices range from £3,000 to £10,000).
  13. ↑ "Gather at Flux Gallery, Winnipeg". Akimbo. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
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