Nigerian-American artist Chioma Ebinama (b. 1988, New Jersey, US) draws from an array of visual and cultural references, employing myth and cosmology as a guide for examining her inner life. Her practice is centred around her preferred medium of watercolour on paper which she acknowledges as both a meditative act and a tool for self-liberation.
Chioma Ebinama lives and works in Athens, Greece. Selected solo exhibitions include: Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway (2024); Maureen Paley, London, UK (2023); The Breeder, Athens, Greece (2023); Fortnight Institute, New York, US (2022); Maureen Paley, London (2021); Galeria Catinca Tabacaru, Bucharest, Romania (2021); Salon 94, New York, US (2021); The Breeder Gallery, Athens, Greece (2020); Fortnight Institute, New York, US (2020).
Selected group exhibitions include: The Infinite Woman, Villa Carmignac, Porquerolles Island, France (2024); Lavinia, Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles, US (2024); Amalia Melancholia, The Breeder Athens, Athens, Greece (2024); Deli Gallery CDMX, Mexico City, Mexico (2023); Cosmos, l’amante del vulcano, Fondazione BTS Como Arte, Como, Italy (2023); Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & The Subterranean Imaginary, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK; travelling to The Glucksman, Cork, Ireland and RAMM, Exeter, UK (2022); The Company She Keeps, Tiwani Contemporary, Lagos, Nigeria (2022); Nine Lives, Fortnight Institute, New York, NY, US (2021); Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond, The Tang Museum at Skidmore College, New York, NY, US (2021).
Her work can be found in both private and public collections worldwide including: Whitney Museum; Perez Museum; LACMA; ILHAM Foundation, Kuala Kumpur, Malasiya; Tschabalala Self, New York, NY, US; Tiroche DeLeon Collection, Tel Aviv, Israel.
She was awarded the 2023 Ezra Jack Keat Honor Award for her illustrations for Emile and the Field, written by Kevin Young, director of the Smithsonian Museum of African American History, and published by Penguin-Random House in 2022. She is currently working on her first manuscript for a children’s book set to be published in 2024 by Penguin Random House.
