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Artist Biography

Born in 1974 in Delta State, Nigeria
Uche Uzorka is a studio artist .Trained Primary in painting
His practice incorporates painting, collage, cutting and pasting, charcoal, and ink drawing in an examination of the processes of urban street culture. He has also engaged with the archive as an artistic process and was recently involved in a two-part artist residency at the University of Bayreuth’s Iwalewa Haus, Germany in 2014 and 2015, where he explored issues of appropriations and re-signification, systems of value and meaning making, time, archaeology, and documentation, around the museum’s collection of African art. Uzorka has held four solo shows in Nigeria and Germany, and participated in many group exhibitions internationally. They include It Felt Strange to Pay for Nigerian Food, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, Germany (2014); Where were you when I was here?, Sübkültür and the Africa Centre, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany (2014); Line. Sign. Symbol, African Artists Foundation, Lagos, Nigeria (2013); Integration and Resistance, 10th Biennale of Havana, Havana, Cuba (2010); and Dialogue Among Civilizations, Art For Humanity, Durban, South Africa (2009).
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014: It felt strange to pay for Nigerian food. Savvy Contemporary .Berlin
2014: Where were you when I was here?. Sübkültür & The Africa Centre , University of Bayreuth ( Iwalewa Haus). Bayreuth
2013: Line. Sign. Symbol . African Artists Foundation (AAF) .Lagos
2012: The Organic. Goethe-Institut Nigeria & African Artists’ Foundation (AAF).Lagos
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
16 NOVEMBER 2019
HOUR GLASS GALLERY LAGOS NIGERIA
2015
Guess who`s coming to dinner ? Richard Taittinger Gallery New York ,USA
MASHUP, The Africa Centre University of Bayreuth ( Iwalewa Haus ) Bayreuth , Germany
2012: Nigeria Now: Emerging Trends of Contemporary Art in Nigeria, Art Africa Miami, Miami, Florida, USA