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Nigeria

Born in: 1987

Multidisciplinary artist

Onyinye Ezennia is a Nigerian Multidisciplinary artist, a member of the Society of Nigerian Artists (SNA) and the Female Artist Association of Nigeria (FEAAN). She obtained an undergraduate degree from the Fine and Applied Arts Department at the Institute of Management and Technology (IMT) in Enugu, where she graduated with a Distinction Grade, then obtained a post-graduate degree from Nnamdi Azikiwe University in Awka, Anambra. Onyinye expresses herself through different mediums of art; social and documentary photography, visual communication design,  serigraphy on tiled perspex, and exploration with light and sound which have won her a prize for originality in 2014. She explores with string art, which won her the overall winner prize at the 2016 Life in My City Art Festival and was a finalist at the Visual Art Competition organized by the Spanish Embassy in Nigeria in 2018 and 2019. She also received the 3rd place award in the Best Art Month competition organized by Best Nigeria and Nike Art Gallery.

Exhibitions

Onyinye has participated in various group exhibitions, workshops, and competitions among which are:


1. Emerging Nigerian Female Artists Auction, Calabar Gallery, New York, 2020.

2. Young Contemporaries virtual exhibition, Rele Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria, 2020.

3. Women by Women, a virtual exhibition by emerging artist platform, London, UK, 2020.

4. Each for Equal by Female Artists Association of Nigeria to mark Women’s Day, Residence of the British Deputy High Commission, Lagos, 2020.

5. Affordable Art Auction, Arthouse Contemporary, Lagos, 2020.

6. October Rain by Society of Nigerian Artists at Thought Pyramid Art Centre, Lagos, Nigeria, 2019.

7. Balance for Better by Female artist association of Nigeria, Nike Art Gallery, Lekki, Lagos, 2019.

8. Small Making by InSEA (International Society for Education through Art) at the University of British Columbia, Canada, July 2019

9. Insight by Xavier University of Louisiana in collaboration with Nike Art Gallery New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 2019.

10. Pan African Artist (PACA) Exhibition, Dakar Biennial, Senegal, 2018.