Chukwudubem Ukaigwe – CV

Chuwudubem Ukaigwe
b. 1995, Lagos, Nigeria
Lives and works in Toronto, Canada

Education

  • 2026 Master of Visual Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
  • 2022 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Selected Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions

  • 2023 No Neutral Language, with Kosisochukwu Nnebe, Artspeak, Vancouver, Canada
    Locutions: Fragments out of a Deluge, Neutral Ground ARC, Saskatoon, Canada
  • 2022 Elegy of the Wind, AMG Projects and Kanbi Projects, Lagos, Nigeria
    Tracing Currents, Videopool, Winnipeg, Canada
  • 2021 Everything Good Will Come, with Bunmi Agusto, Polartics, London, UK
  • 2019 IGBA, Flux Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2025 Black Prairies, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
  • 2024 Confluence, Rosemary Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
    The Pluck of Water, Galerie Buhler, Winnipeg, Canada
    Black Prairies, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, Canada
    No Exit, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver, Canada
  • 2023 Aftereffects: Emerging New Media Artists in Winnipeg, Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown, Canada
    Africa Supernova, Kunsthal Kade, Amersfoot, Netherlands
    Expression, Chilli Arts Projects, London UK
    While Black: A forum for speculation on what the gallery can’t hold, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, Canada
  • 2022 proximity · pleasure · plasticity: looking at performance, Dazibao, Montreal, Canada
    While Black: A forum for speculation on what the gallery can’t hold, Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown, Canada
  • 2021 Self-Addressed, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
    I No Be Gentleman (at all o), ADA Contemporary Art Gallery, Accra, Ghana
    Untangling the perils that tangle us, The Koppel Project, London, UK
    Traces, Platform Centre for Photographic and Digital arts, Winnipeg, Canada
    While Black: A forum for speculation on what the gallery can’t hold, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
  • 2020 Here, There, Nowhere: Dwelling At The Edge Of The World, The Koppel Project, London, UK
    Analogous, Taché Hall Gallery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
  • 2019 Peaches in a Can, aceartinc., Winnipeg, Canada
    FEAST, Taché Hall Gallery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
  • 2018 Mightier than the Sword, Taché Hall Gallery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Books and Exhibition Catalogues

  • 2024 Pan Wendt, Aftereffects, Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Canada

Magazines and Periodicals

  • 2024 Tom Zillich, ‘Black Arts Centre opens in Surrey as hub for B.C.’s largest Black population’, Surrey Now-Leader, 19 April
    Sage Wosminity, ‘Locutions: Fragments out of a Deluge’, BlackFlash 41.1, Spring
  • 2023 Iyanuoluwa Adenle, ‘8 emerging Nigerian artists you should know’, P54 Magazine, 14 November
    ‘Kemi Craig’s Blackspace Library’, AGGV Magazine, 1 September
    Maria Isabel Martinez, ‘The Potentiality of the Returned Gaze’, Femme Art Review, 16 January
  • 2022 Christina Battle, ‘Care, Trust and Laughter: Strengthening the Collective Model’, BlackFlash, 7 November
    Wonu Osikoya, ‘How Chukwudubem Ukaigwe is telling meaningful stories with his art’, Native, 29 September
  • 2021 Zoë Lebrun, ‘Exploring the ephemeral marks left behind’, The Manitoban, 23 November
    Blair Fornwald, ‘Texture Hunger’, Traces, Platform Centre for Photographic and Digital arts, Winnipeg, Canada
    Idaresit Thompson, ‘Sonic Interpolation: A Conversation with Artist Chukwudubem Ukaigwe’, Toned, 27 October
    Carla Tozzi, ‘Amplified voices: emerging talents from Africa at Polartics Gallery’, Acre Magazine, 31 March
    Lindsay Inglis, ‘Q&A: Chukwudubem Ukaigwe’, Galleries West, 8 February
  • 2020 Randall King, ‘Filmmaker uses music to explore civil rights’, The Free Press, 30 November
  • 2019 Leah Sandals, ‘Artist Calls for More BIPOC Artworks and Staff at Canadian Museums’, Canadian Art, 13 June
    Nelly Gonzalez, ‘Black artists go topless to call for more representation at Winnipeg Art Gallery’, CBC News, 5 April

Published Writing by the Artist

  • 2024 Chukwudubem Ukaigwe, ‘Exercising Shadows’, Rebecca Bair: In Self-Regard, W Projects, Vancouver, Canada June
  • 2022 Chukwudubem Ukaigwe, ‘In Search of Verbs’, a response to Unbound A/V: Redefining the Undefined, Manufacturing Entertainment, December
    Chukwudubem Ukaigwe, ‘Suggestions for an Endless Landscape’, BlackFlash, 17 November
    Chukwudubem Ukaigwe, ‘Foreword’, Friends in Eternity, Isabel Okoro
    Chukwudubem Ukaigwe, ‘Manuel Mathieu at Plug In ICA, Winnipeg’, Akimbo, 24 March
  • 2021 Chukwudubem Ukaigwe, ‘Glodi Bahati at TakeHome BIPOC Arts House’, Akimbo, 8 December
    Chukwudubem Ukaigwe, ‘Transcension: A Response to the work of Iyunade Judah’, Platform centre for photographic + digital arts, Winnipeg, Canada, June
  • 2020 Chukwudubem Ukaigwe, ‘Plug In Editions Online: Ekene Maduka, Annie Beach, Cassandra Cochrane, Iyunade Judah, and Eve Tagny’, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada, 18 December

Selected Curatorial Projects

  • 2022 Hybrid Potentialities, curated by Patterns Collective, Wall-to-Wall Mural Festival, Winnipeg, Canada
  • 2021 Sanctuaries, A Virtual Exhibition, curated by Patterns Collective, Gallery 1C03, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
  • 2020 Virtual Poetry Performance Series, curated by Patterns Collective, Winnipeg, Canada
  • 2019 The Funk, Taché Hall Gallery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Residencies

  • 2024 Annandale Artist Residency, Annandale, Canada
  • 2021 The Salt Spring Arts Residency Program, Salt Spring Island, Canada
  • 2020 Scott Leroux Fund for Media Arts Exploration Residency, Video Pool Media Arts Centre, Winnipeg, Canada

Awards

  • 2023 Professional Artist Create Grant, Manitoba Arts Council
  • 2022 Individual Artist Grant, Winnipeg Arts Council
  • 2021 Barbara Chase Bursary in Fine Arts, University of Manitoba
    Janet Ian Cameron Memorial Bursary, University of Manitoba
    Robert D. Bruce and Katherine M. Bruce Bursary, University of Manitoba
    Takao Tanabe Scholarship in Painting, University of Manitoba
  • 2020 Banded Purple Black Creators Fund
    SNAP Photo Competition, Rising Star Award of Merit, AIDS Committee of Toronto
    Gissur Eliasson Memorial Scholarship, University of Manitoba
    Carol E. Mills Memorial Scholarship in Painting/Printmaking, University of Manitoba
    Scott Leroux Fund for Media Arts Exploration, Videopool Media Arts Centre, Winnipeg, Canada
  • 2019 Mitch Gowler Memorial Award, University of Manitoba
    Carol E. Mills Memorial Scholarship in Painting/Printmaking, University of Manitoba
  • 2018 Robert Bruce Memorial Bursary, University of Manitoba
    Lydia Friessen Memorial Bursary in Fine Arts, University of Manitoba