Chidinma Nnoli (b. 1998, Enugu, Nigeria) who currently lives and work in Lagos, received her BFA from the University of Benin, Nigeria in 2018. Nnoli is an artist working primarily with painting. Her practice contemplates the importance of a single subject’s embodied experiences, overlaying the past unto the present while insisting on the emotional link between body and space often in conflict with self and a background mostly saturated with religion and gendered obligations.
Solo Exhibitions include When Will My Feet Catch Fire?, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA (2022); Not all who wander are Lost (wanderlust), The Armory Show, New York City, USA (2021); To wander untamed, Rele Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria (2021).
Group exhibitions include Where the Wild Roses Grow, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Schloss Görne, Berlin, Germany (2023); It’s a wRAP, Rele Gallery, Lagos Nigeria (2021); Invisible Hands, Yemisi Shyllon Museum, Lagos, Nigeria (2021); Orita Meta, Rele Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria (2021); in Situ, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York City, USA (2021); Rele Art Foundation Young Contemporaries, Rele Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria (2020); Forme Feminée, Thoughts Pyramid Art Centre, Lagos, Nigeria (2019); Indesign Art Fair, Fourth Edition, Lagos, Nigeria (2019); There She Is, Fortini Cristi Art Gallery, Edo, Nigeria (2018); Crowne Art Gallery Annual Exhibition,. Edo, Nigeria (2018);
Highlights and Collections
Chidinma Nnoli’s art has been featured in Vogue, The New York Times, The Art Newspaper, Artskop and She Curates. Nnoli has received the upcoming PM/AM 2023 Residency in London, UK, as well as the Rele Art Foundation Residency in Ekiti, Nigeria in 2019. Furthermore, she has also completed an internship at Universal Studios of Art at the National Theatre in Lagos in 2017.