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