By Bahar Kaygusuz, 2024.
ABOUT
David Ụzọchukwu (b.1998) is an Austrian-Nigerian artist engaging with longing and belonging through (self) portraiture. Currently pursues a BA in Philosophy and Cultural Studies at HU Berlin.
CONTACT
EMAIL studio@daviduzochukwu.com
INSTAGRAM @daviduzochukwu
LIMITED EDITION PRINTS Galerie Gomis, marie@galeriegomis.com
PRESS
CNN Style, 2022
The Guardian, 2022
Vogue Italia, 2021
Autograph, 2021
Artist Decoded, 2020
BJP, 2020
D'Lëtzebuerger Land, 2014
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
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
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
The Wedge Collection
Collection Pictet
Musée de la Photographie de Saint-Louis
FILMOGRAPHY
Black Fruit (Schwarze Früchte), series, ARD, episodes 5-8, 2024. WP Tribeca Film Festival
Civil Dusk, 27’, 2021. WP CPH:DOX
Götterdämmerung, 7’, 2020. WP Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis
HONORS
Nomination: UK Music Video Award "Best Alternative Video UK", 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