Kosisochukwu Nnebe (2022). Photo: Vladim Vilain. Kosisochukwu Nnebe
Kosisochukwu Nnebe (b. 1993) is a Nigerian-Canadian conceptual artist and researcher working across installation, lens- and time-based media, and sculpture. Her work challenges dominant narratives by transforming the vernacular and commonplace—from native languages and foodstuffs such as cassava to physical spaces such as nail salons—into counter-archives of colonial histories. Through her practice, she excavates and reclaims gendered histories of resistance, offering transgressive representations and understandings of Blackness rooted in anti-imperial relationality. At its core, Nnebe’s practice is invested in anti-imperial world-building through the troubling of colonial logics and speculative reimaginings of otherwise pasts, presents, and futures.
A self-taught artist, Nnebe uses her practice to critically engage with her educational background in economics, development, and sociology from McGill University and the London School of Economics, as well as her professional experience in social, economic and environmental policy with the Canadian government. Nnebe’s work has been shown in exhibitions internationally, including NADA New York, the Art Museum of Toronto, and AXENEO7. She is an awardee of the G.A.S. Fellowship started by Yinka Shonibare CBE RA and was an artist-in-residence at El Espacio 23 (Miami) with the Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA). She is a 2025 artist-in-residence at the Jan van Eyck Academie.
Exposities
Tentoonstelling: Shapeshifters
Een groepstentoonstelling die onderzoekt hoe kolonialisme musea, archieven en andere kennisinstellingen heeft vormgegeven
Agenda
Symposium: Shapeshifters
Day-long symposium addressing the ethical and cultural implications of collections built through colonial looting and exploitation.