b. 1992, Nigeria
Chibụike Ụzọma is a multidisciplinary artist working with painting, photography, drawing, texts, and video. He received his BFA from the University of Benin, and an MFA from Yale University School of Art. By treating art as a subject-object in and of itself, Chibụike's practice engenders the image with the complexes of narratives and the superstitions of meaning—making subject matter a pretext for performance, and context, a fluid ground.
Taking a spontaneous approach to his work even as a constructionist, he endeavours to make his paintings and images in the creative moment by making each of his pieces an experiment. He tries to look beyond a literal interpretation of the images that he makes, to a more conceptual understanding of the pictures. He sees his 'subjects' as partners in the creative process and often share the images with them so as to give a visual feedback to the participants in what is in effect a performance before his camera.