CHIDINMA NNOLI
b. 1998Chidinma Nnoli was born in 1998 in Enugu, Nigeria. Nnoli’s practice contemplates the importance of a subject’s embodied experiences, overlaying the past onto the present while insisting on the emotional link between a body and space, often in conflict with self and a background mostly saturated with religion and gendered obligations.
Nnoli earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Benin in 2018. In 2020, she was selected for the Rele Arts Foundation Young Contemporaries exhibition in Lagos and has gone on to participate in solo and group exhibitions at the Seattle Art Museum, Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art, Rele Gallery, Marianne Boesky Gallery, and a solo presentation at the Armory Show New York in 2021. Her works have been featured in Vogue, The New York Times, The Art Newspaper, Hyperallergic, and Colossal.
She currently lives and works in Lagos, Nigeria.
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