OROMA ELEWA
(b. Port Harcourt, Nigeria)
Lives and works in New York
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EDUCATION AND TRAINING
The Art Institute of New York
Lee Strasberg Institute for Film and Theater
PRIZES & AWARDS
2022 — Tosetti Value Award in Photography, Turin, Italy
COLLECTIONS / ACQUISITIONS
FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France
The Tosetti Value Collection, Turin, Italy
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 — Corporate Ashawo, In Situ Fabienne Leclerc, Paris, France
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2025 – There’s something in the wall, Collection Exhibition, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne,Reims, France,Curated by Noé Quilichini
2024 — On Your Lips,Collection Exhibition, FRAC des Pays de la Loire & Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France
2024 – Nouvelles acquisitions, Collection Exhibition, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
2022 — Currency, 8th Triennial of Photography, curated by Koyo Kouoh, Deichtorhallen Museum, Hamburg, Germany
ART FAIRS
2024 — Art Genève, presented by In Situ Fabienne Leclerc, Geneva, Switzerland
2023 — Art-o-rama, presented by In Situ Fabienne Leclerc, Marseille, France
2022 — Paris+ par Art Basel, presented by In Situ Fabienne Leclerc, Paris, France
2022 — Artissima, presented by In Situ Fabienne Leclerc, Turin, Italy
2022 — Art Genève, presented by In Situ Fabienne Leclerc, Geneva, Switzerland
2020 — Burned Out, Daba Photo Festival, presented by Le18, Marrakech, Morocco
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 — Togethering, curated by Otobong Nkanga, In Situ Fabienne Leclerc, Paris, France
LIVE PERFORMANCES
2018 — 25th Anniversary of the New York African Film Festival, Lincoln Center, New York
2018 — The Way We Wrap (Crushed Guava Leaves), Okay Space, Brooklyn, New York
CURRICULUM CONTRIBUTIONS
2017 — Approaches to Performance in Contemporary Photography, MFA Program, Central Saint Martins, London
2026 – Dance and Performance Resources, Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver, BC
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS & HONORARIA
2018 — Art & Activism, New York African Film Festival, Lincoln Center, New York
2015 — The Art of Zine Making, Studio Museum Harlem, New York
2015 — Clothes & Class, Williams College, Massachusetts
2014 — Beauty & Bleaching in Africa, AMKA, Pretoria, South Africa
2012 — Image and the Internet, Gaborone Fashion Week Symposium, Botswana
2010 — The New African Identity, African Student Union, Yale University, Connecticut
2010 — African Fashion Today, MoCADA Museum, Brooklyn, New York
SELECT PRESS ARTICLES
March 2023, Artbasel.com
March 2023, Jeune Africa
January 2022, The Art Newspaper
July/August 2020, Art Forum
January 2017, New York Times Style Magazine