Onyeka Igwe

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Onyeka Igwe
Born1986
London, UK
NationalityNigerian
British
Occupations
  • Artist
  • filmmaker
  • photographer
Website onyekaigwe.com

Onyeka Igwe (born 1996), is a British-Nigerian artist, mostly working in film based media. [1] [2]

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Her works have been screened at MoMA , Black Radical Imagination, Institute of Contemporary Art (2017), Dhaka Art Summit (2020), London Film Festival 2015 and 2020, Open City Documentary Festival 2021 and 2022, Rotterdam International, Netherlands (2018–2020), [3] Edinburgh Artist Moving Image (2016), Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival, [4] [5] Images Festival (2019), Camden Arts Centre and Smithsonian African American film festival (2018). [6]

Career

No Dance, No Palaver

No Dance, No Palaver is a short documentary shown in 2017 and 2018. The work received critical review as it told The Aba Women's Riots of 1929 [7] and the "visual trauma of the colonial archive" and attempted "to transform the way in which we know the people it contains". [8]

Recent works, 2019

The names have been changed, including my own and truths have been altered was a short story documented by Onyeka in 2019. It was a story about her grandfather told in four different ways. It was centered on African diaspora. In 2023, The Museum of West African Art headed Nigeria Pavilion which was curated at the 2024 Venice Biennale where Onyeka participated alongside Yinka Shonibare, Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Ndidi Dike, Fatimah Tuggar, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Precious Okoyomon and Abraham Oghobase. [9]

Exhibitions

Onyeka's exhibition include:

Group exhibitions

They include:

Filmography

Publications

Awards and nominations

In 2022, Onyeka Igwe was nominated for the Jarman Award [28] and Max Mara Art Prize for Women. [29] In 2021, she won the Foundwork Artist Prize [30] and the 2020 Arts Foundation Futures Award for Experimental Short Film. [31] In 2019, Onyeka won the Berwick New Cinema Awards at Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival. Alongside Seán Elder, Rebecca Moss and AJ Stockwell, She was listed by The Guardian as Also showing Exhibition of the week for Jerwood staging series. [32]

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