I firmly believe in the functions of portraiture, storytelling and the supernatural. The orality of my Nigerian and African American heritage has encouraged an interest in conduits, channels, modes of communication and how they contribute to culture and identity. I remain an artist that prefers to tell stories on multiple platforms; employing sculpture, performance and writing in my lifelong engagement with photography. By Illuminating spaces just out of view, I seek to prompt a further investigation into how one perceives their surroundings/place in time.


studio@chinaeduen.com

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Education

2022       Yale University, MFA Photography

2011        Howard University, BA in Film


Solo Exhibitions

2025       Between My Smile, New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

2023      Show Me The Light, Superposition Gallery at 1-54 Art Fair, Harlem, NY

2020      Sister Gaze: The Instant Archive, Nous Tous Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 


Selected Group Exhibitions

2024       Take a Minute, Dominique Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2023       Love Letter to LA, Superposition at Phillips, Los Angeles, CA

2023       Freedom, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY 

2022      Between the Self and its True Home, The New Wight Biennial, UCLA Broad Art Center, Los Angeles, CA 

2022      The dark, too, blooms and sings, UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA 

2022      Staring at the Sun, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY

2022       Romance, Action, Mystery, Yale MFA Photography Thesis Show, New Haven, CT

2022       Brought It Home, Yale MFA at the African American Cultural House, New Haven, CT

2021       10268#, Yale School of Art Second Year Show, New Haven, CT

2020       No Masters, Yale School of Art First Year Show, New Haven, CT

2020       We Are More Than a Moment, Gallery 51 Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts


Awards & Fellowships

2024       Yale School of Art x NYU Abu Dhabi Post MFA Residency Exchange Program, Inaugural Artist

2023       California Arts Council, Los Angeles County, Emerging Artist Grantee

2021       Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship, Yale University

2020       Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist, Los Angeles Grantee



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