Everlyn Nicodemus

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Everlyn Nicodemus
Born1954
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]
Awards

Everlyn Nicodemus is a Tanzanian-born artist, writer, and curator, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. [4]

Early life and career

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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References

  1. 1 2 3 "'They told me I was a savage' – the unstoppable painter Everlyn Nicodemus". The Guardian.
  2. 1 2 3 "Everlyn Nicodemus,". Ben Uri Research Unit.
  3. 1 2 "Freelands Award 2022".
  4. 1 2 "Everlyn Nicodemus". National Galleries of Scotland.
  5. 1 2 "A Woman in the World: Everlyn Nicodemus". post (Museum of Modern Art).
  6. "Silent Strength 36". The Arts Council Collection.
  7. "Everlyn Nicodemus". Richard Saltoun.
  8. "Everlyn Nicodemus ('Självporträtt, Åkersberga') by Everlyn Nicodemus". National Portrait Gallery.