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Ndidi Dike was born in London in 1960 and graduated from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, with a Diploma in Music Education (voice), followed by a B.A Fine and Applied Arts in 1984 (major Mixed Media Painting). She is a visual artist working in a variety of media including installation, sculpture, mixed media painting and more recently lense based media and video.
Teaching herself to sculpt, she has established herself as one of the leading contemporary artists working on the continent, with well over a decade of transgressive sculptural practice. In 2004 she revisited painting in her work : her professional methodology is to locate the appropriate artistic strategy that best suits the subject of contemplation at that moment. In order to do so, she uses her research of a particular theme or topic. These themes include slavery, consumerism, globalization, urbanism, Nigerian visual culture, art history, cross border/country migration, multi culturalism, post-colonial, studies,identity and contemporary politics.
Having had numerous solo exhibitions till date, and group exhibitions in Nigeria and abroad. Including, Seven Stories About Modern Art in Africa: Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England (1995. ), Solo exhibits include Waka-Into-Bondage: The Last 3/4 Mile, Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos (2008) Unknown Pleasures and Competing Tendencies, National Museum Onikan, Lagos,(2012), State Of The Nation, new works and installations, National Museum Onikan ,Lagos (2016) Biennale Jogja XIII “Hacking Conflict Indonesia meets Nigeria”( 2015).
Ndidi Dike is a member of the Guild of Fine Arts, Nigeria (GFAN) and Society of Nigerian Artists (SNA). She currently runs her own studio in Lagos.
Ndidi Dike
Ndidi Dike was born in London in 1960 and graduated from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, with a Diploma in Music Education (voice), followed by a B.A Fine and Applied Arts in 1984 (major Mixed Media Painting). She is a visual artist working in a variety of media including installation, sculpture, mixed media painting and more recently lense based media and video.
Teaching herself to sculpt, she has established herself as one of the leading contemporary artists working on the continent, with well over a decade of transgressive sculptural practice. In 2004 she revisited painting in her work : her professional methodology is to locate the appropriate artistic strategy that best suits the subject of contemplation at that moment. In order to do so, she uses her research of a particular theme or topic. These themes include slavery, consumerism, globalization, urbanism, Nigerian visual culture, art history, cross border/country migration, multi culturalism, post-colonial, studies,identity and contemporary politics.
Having had numerous solo exhibitions till date, and group exhibitions in Nigeria and abroad. Including, Seven Stories About Modern Art in Africa: Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England (1995. ), Solo exhibits include Waka-Into-Bondage: The Last 3/4 Mile, Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos (2008) Unknown Pleasures and Competing Tendencies, National Museum Onikan, Lagos,(2012), State Of The Nation, new works and installations, National Museum Onikan ,Lagos (2016) Biennale Jogja XIII “Hacking Conflict Indonesia meets Nigeria”( 2015).
Ndidi Dike is a member of the Guild of Fine Arts, Nigeria (GFAN) and Society of Nigerian Artists (SNA). She currently runs her own studio in Lagos.
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