Everlyn Nicodemus | |
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Born | 1954 |
Education | Stockholm University (1978–1982), Berlin University of the Arts (1988), Middlesex University (2007–2012) [2] |
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Spouse(s) | Unknown (divorced); Kristian Romare (died 2015) [1] |
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Everlyn Nicodemus is a Tanzanian-born artist, writer, and curator, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. [4]
Nicodemus initially enrolled in teacher training school, but eloped to marry a Swedish economist working in Tanzania. [1] The pair moved to Sweden in 1973, where, influenced by her experiences of everyday racism, she enrolled in Stockholm University in 1978 to study social anthropology. [5]
While back in Tanzania doing fieldwork, Nicodemus started making art in response to her discomfort with anthropology. This quickly led to a solo exhibition of paintings and poems at the National Museum of Tanzania in Dar es Salaam in 1980. [5]
After divorcing her first husband, Nicodemus married Kristian Romare, a Swedish art historian, with whom she moved to Edinburgh in 2008. [2]
Her work includes paintings, collages, mixed-media assemblages, and poetry, and has been informed by racism, trauma, PTSD, and recovery. [6] She completed her PhD on African Modern Art and Black Cultural Trauma at Middlesex University in 2012. [7]
Nicodemus won the Freelands Foundation Award in 2022, [3] which supported the first retrospective of her work, at the National Galleries of Scotland, from September 2024 to May 2025. [4] Her painting Självporträtt, Åkersberga was acquired by the National Portrait Gallery, London in 2022, [8] and became the first painted self-portrait by a black female artist in the gallery's collection. [2]
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