Udeaku Chikezie

Nigerian artist Udeaku Chikezie blends her contemporary aesthetic with the roots of her culture to create a unique and personal view of her everyday surroundings.  Using dramatic, sweeping angles, rich earthy colors, and immediate subject matter, Chikezie presents a modern vision of her native country.  Her documentary style photographs capture with a crystalline clarity the beauty and reality of the day to day struggles, triumphs, lives and scenery that make up the world around her.  Truly an interdisciplinary artist, Chikezie works in a variety of mediums including paint, metal, fabric and photography to express the poignant peculiarity of life.  While her surrealist paintings are a subtle reflection, her photographs serve as raw evidence of her life in Nigeria and consequently serve as a release for her emotions, ideas, and experiences. 

Born in Enugu, Nigeria, Udeaku Chikezie continues to be inspired by the world in which she lives.  She holds a degree in Fine and Applied Arts from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Her artwork can be found in private collections worldwide.