Ndidi Dike MRSS

Ndidi Dike, born in London, she returned to Nigeria to train as a painter and graduated from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, graduating with a BA degree in mixed media painting . Although known internationally as a sculptor, having taught herself to sculpt, with decades of transgressive sculptural practice

In the current climate of contemporary politics, protectionism, nationalism and globalization Dike primarily works as a multi- media artist with a special interest in personal archives and long term researched based projects and engagement with global histories to address the pre and post-colonial historic and social-economic legacy of the enslaved, forced migration, and memory among other issues. That relates too and ties in with "Atlantic World Relations" which looks at the circulation of bodies, ideas, performances, and cultures within the context of the Atlantic world (the countries and continents bordering the Atlantic Ocean

Her use of materiality, metaphors and objects aesthetically carry the tangible weight and implicitness of wider references and symbolisms to their former economic, social and political lives. Become active participants in immersive installations responding to the space in which the work is being exhibited and theme at hand by, weaving materials and meanings through both conventional and experimental processes.

And simultaneously engaging with geo-political policies that underwrite the control and extractive industrial complex that govern natural resource and appropriation in Africa, That investigate the global entanglements of material (dis) possession, postcolonial exploitation in the Global South, focusing on the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Madagascar. As well as displacement , living patriarchy, gender equity, the political dimensions of market aesthetics , consumption and commodity cultures ,space, borders and territory among other exigencies

For years her art has sought to address and refract the most pressing sociopolitical and economic concerns of our time through formally sophisticated and conceptually driven artworks and projects that offer audiences fresh perspectives on the present.

Recent Solo and Group International Exhibitions;

Working Through An Impasse ,Art Twenty One Lagos, July- September 2021

Sonsbeek20-24,Arnhem Netherlands, 2021.

LOOK AT THIS, Pinothek de Moderne, Munich 2021.

Memoria accounts of another history,Frac Meca Bordeaux France, 2021.

Lagos Biennial, Independence Building Lagos Island,Lagos Nigeria, 2019.

Prince/sses Of The City. Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2019.

Dakart Biennale, Dakar, Senegal ,2018.

Vanishing Voices special project 11th Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre Brazil, 2018.

Exafrica exhibition ,Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, 2017-2018, Belo Horizonte Brasil

In The Guise of Resource Control Villa Vasslieff, Paris, 2017.

Constellations Floating Space, Motion and Remembrance, Iwalewahaus Bayreuth, Germany 2017.

State of The Nation: New Works and Installations”National Museum Onikan, Lagos, 2016.

Ndidi Dike Discomfort Zones Monograph 2022

A full colour monographic book gives a detailed overview on select artistic bodies of work of Ndidi Dike in the last decades.And includes a number of high quality texts by art historians, curators and collectors from different disciplinary backgrounds. It is the first-ever art monograph on a Nigerian female professional artist living and working on the continent.     Published by Iwalewabooks