Ozioma Onuzulike

Ozioma Onuzulike is an artist born in 1972 in Achi, Enugu State, Nigeria. He graduated First Class from the Department of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where he is currently a professor of ceramic art and African art history and Director of the University’s Institute of African Studies. His first solo exhibition in New York was held September-October 2023 at the Marc Straus Gallery in New York City. His works were included in the exhibition [Re:]Entanglements: Colonial Collections in Decolonial Times, held at the Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK, arising from the [Re:]Entanglements Research Project led by Professor Paul Basu.

Onuzulike is a fellow of the Civitella Ranieri Centre, Umbertide, Perugia, Italy, where he completed a residency under the UNESCO-ASCHBERG Bursary for Artists. Additionally, he is a 2011 recipient of the African Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship Award of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), and 2010 Leventis Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of London Centre of African Studies, SOAS; and an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine. His works are in the collection of museums such as the Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art, Lagos; Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, Cambridge University, UK; Princeton University Museum, New Jersey; The Design Museum, Munich; Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the Crocker Museum, California; Fondation Thalie, Brussels; Museo Ettore Fico, Turin and North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, among others.

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