About
David Uzochukwu (b. 1998, Innsbruck) is an Austrian and Nigerian visual artist. His work roots in self portraiture and questions of (be)longing.
Contact
studio@daviduzochukwu.com
Upcoming
July 4 to September 26, 2021. The New Black Vanguard. Rencontres d'Arles. Arles, France.
October 15 to 24, 2021. Athens International Film and Video Festival. Athens, Ohio, USA (Götterdämmerung)
Selected Group Shows + Screenings
2021 Max Ophüls Preis, Short Film Competition (Götterdämmerung)
2019 A Glitch in the System. Photo Vogue Festival. Milan, Italy
2019 Liquid Thunder. Monom, Funkhaus. Berlin, Germany
2018 Embracing Diversity. Photo Vogue Festival. Milan, Italy
2018 Vogue Italia: When Ethics Meets Aesthetics. Leica Galerie. Milan, Italy
2018 Off Biennale Dakar: Bridge. La Villa Rouge. Dakar, Senegal
2018 Songes d’Hier, Rêveries du Présent. MuPho de Saint-Louis. Saint-Louis, Senegal
2017 Portraits. Hangar. Brussels, Belgium
2017 Where Future Beats. Casello Ovest di Porta Venezia. Venice, Italy
2016 Rituals and Performance: Inherent Risk. Lagos Photo Festival. Lagos, Nigeria
2016 Dey Your Lane! Bozar. Brussels, Belgium
2016 Whispering Stills. Never Apart. Montréal, Canada
2016 Unlocked. Atopos CVC. Athens, Greece
2014 Flickr: 20 under 20. Milk Studios. New York, New York
2014 FOM Foto Maastricht. 6211 kunstkwartier. Maastricht, Netherlands
Honors
2021 Prix Pictet (Nomination)
2020 Photo London Emerging Photographer Award (Shortlist)
2020 British Journal of Photography: One to Watch
2020 Futures
2020 Europa im Film - Jury Award
2020 Pixels, Bytes & Film - Artist in Residence
2019 ICP Infinity Award - Emerging Photographer (Nomination)
2019 CPH:LAB
2015 Adobe - 25 under 25
2015 Flickr - 20 under 20
2014 EyeEm - Photographer of the Year
Permanent Collection
MuPho. Saint-Louis, Senegal
Press
2021 Vogue Italia / Autograph
2020 Aperture / Creative Review / Artist Decoded / BJP
2019 Indie
2017 It's Nice That / Dazed / Okayafrica
2015 EyeEm
2014 D'Lëtzebuerger Land