Chidumaga Uzoma
Orji

Awardee

Country

Nigeria

Chidumaga Uzoma Orji talks about racial justice through artistic practices.

Themes
Free Expression / Civil Society
Reexamining history
Others
Disciplines
Artistic Research
Design
Fashion
Film
Photography
Visual Art
Other(s)
Awards
SEED Award 2021
FELLOWS Award 2022
Building Beyond

Profile

Chidumaga Uzoma Orji is a creative technologist and visual artist born and based in Nigeria. He has exhibited his work at ‘Here, There, Everywhere’, Format Festival (2021), CultureHub ReFest (2020), and Lagos Photo Festival (2019). With his work, he’s interested in observing and creating representations of society and of history as visual metaphors that unpack the millennial Igbo Nigerian cultural context and explore post-colonial crises of identity by exploring how digital technologies can be used as tools to access ancestral truths in the present day.