ABOUT

David Ụzọchukwu (b. 1998, Innsbruck, Austria) is an artist and filmmaker, living and working in Berlin, Germany.


CONTACT

EMAIL studio@daviduzochukwu.com 

INSTAGRAM @daviduzochukwu


LIMITED EDITION PRINTS 

Galerie Gomis, marie@galeriegomis.com

ONGOING, UPCOMING

28.03-17.08.25 Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style, the Design Museum, London, UK

12.04.25 CIVIL DUSK screens at Dortmund goes Black Festival, Dortmund, Germany


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024-25 New Suns, Galerie Gomis c/o Sheriff Gallery, Paris, France

2019 Liquid Thunder, MONOM, Berlin, Germany


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

Marvellous Realism. Fotografiska, Shanghai, China

Human / Nature: Encountering Ourselves in the Natural World, Fotografiska, New York, US

Festival Art Souterrain. Montreal, Canada


2023-24 

Dancing in the Light, MOCA Toronto, Toronto, Canada


2022-23 

Bamako Encounters - African Biennale of Photography, Bamako, Mali

The New Black Vanguard, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

Prix Pictet, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico


2022 

The Upshot of Trans-Affective Solidarity, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, US

But I'm Awake. Kampnagel & Deichtorhallen, Phototriennale Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

CPH:DOX, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark


2021 

Prix Pictet, V&A, London, UK

Reframing History, Photo Vogue Festival, Milan, Italy

The New Black Vanguard, Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France


2019 

Unseen, Amsterdam, Netherlands


2018 

Songes d’Hier, Rêveries du Présent, Musée de la Photographie de Saint-Louis, Saint-Louis, Senegal


2016 

Rituals and Performance: Inherent Risk, Lagos Photo Festival, Lagos, Nigeria

Dey Your Lane! Bozar, Brussels, Belgium

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

The Wedge Collection 

Collection Pictet

Musée de la Photographie de Saint-Louis


FILMOGRAPHY

Black Fruit (original title: Schwarze Früchte), series, ARD, episodes 5-8, 35' each, 2024. WP Tribeca Film Festival

Civil Dusk, 27’, 2021. WP CPH:DOX

Götterdämmerung, 7’, 2020. WP Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis


HONORS

Forbes 30 Under 30 — Europe — Art & Culture, 2025

Nomination: Grimme-Preis (Black Fruit), 2025

Nomination: UK Music Video Award "Best Alternative Video UK" (I Saw), 2023 

British Fashion Council NEW WAVE: Creatives, 2021 

Shortlist: Prix Pictet, 2021 

Futures, 2020 

Europa im Film - Jury Award (Götterdämmerung), 2020 

Pixels, Bytes & Film - Artist in Residence, 2020 

CPH:LAB, 2019 

Flickr - 20 under 20, 2015 

EyeEm - Photographer of the Year, 2014 


PUBLICATIONS

Eshun, Ekow, In the Black Fantastic, Thames & Hudson,  2022

Prix Pictet, fire, teNeues, 2021

Durant, Mark Alice, Running Falling Flying Floating Crawling, Saint Lucy Books, 2020


SELECTED PRESS

2024 Atmos

2022 CNN Style

2021 Vogue Italia Autograph 

2020 Artist Decoded / BJP 

2019 Indie

2018 Kinfolk / i-D 

2017 It's Nice That / Dazed / Okayafrica

2015 EyeEm

2014 D'Lëtzebuerger Land

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