Anietie is a London-born printmaker that paints and makes videos on occasion.
They are primarily concerned with transforming the affective and embodied experience of diasporic identity into a physical, material space.
Art as a product of the archive, pursuing a range of human life in a pictorial geography.
Memory and process as a source for cultural production where representations of Blackness are ongoing and infinite.
b.1996, London, U.K.
2021 Ingram Prize recipient.
painter, printmaker & video artist living and working between london + new haven
︎Education
2023–2025: Yale University, MFA Painting & Printmaking
︎Howardena Pindell Scholar
2015–2018: University of Oxford, BA History of Art
︎Exhibitioner
︎Residencies
2023: Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2023: Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
2021: Koraï Project Space, Nicosia
2021: Emerging Visual Artist Intensive, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
2019: Urban Nation Museum, Berlin
︎Press
Vanguard Nigeria
Hero Magazine, 2021
︎Works in Collections
The Ingram Collection of Modern and Contemporary British Art: Yemaya o Yemoja (2021)
︎Solo Exhibitions
2021: Mumbo Jumbo, Koraï Project Space, Nicosia
2020: When I was 14 I set myself on fire (at 24 I would do it again), Takt Gallery, Berlin
︎Group Exhibitions
2024: A place that is not here, Yale Afro-American Cultural Center, New Haven, CT
2023: why do I always fall out of bed at night, 1st Year MFA Show, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2022: Young Masters, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London, U.K
2022: BODY ECSTATIC BODY ECLECTIC BODY ECCENTRIC, Ulay Foundation, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2021: Revolting Bodies, AtoposCVC, Athens, Greece
2021: The Ingram Prize, Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop, London, U.K
2020: New Wight Biennial, UCLA, U.S
︎Prizes and fellowships/grants dated by year
2024: Howardena Pindell Scholarship, Yale School of Art
2023: Emily Mason - Wolf Kahn Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center
2022: Young Masters Art Prize
︎Winner of The Ingram Prize, 2021
2021: Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Outstanding Artist Award
2021: Burberry Design Scholarship
2019: Vermont Studio Center Printmaking Fellowship
2019: Stiftung Berliner Leben A.I.R Scholarship
2017: Peggy Guggenheim, Veronica Bulgari Scholarship
They are primarily concerned with transforming the affective and embodied experience of diasporic identity into a physical, material space.
Art as a product of the archive, pursuing a range of human life in a pictorial geography.
Memory and process as a source for cultural production where representations of Blackness are ongoing and infinite.
Anietie ekanem︎
b.1996, London, U.K.
2021 Ingram Prize recipient.
painter, printmaker & video artist living and working between london + new haven
︎Education
2023–2025: Yale University, MFA Painting & Printmaking
︎Howardena Pindell Scholar
2015–2018: University of Oxford, BA History of Art
︎Exhibitioner
︎Residencies
2023: Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2023: Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
2021: Koraï Project Space, Nicosia
2021: Emerging Visual Artist Intensive, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
- With CASSILS, Brendan Fernandes and Stephanie Comilang
2019: Urban Nation Museum, Berlin
︎Press
Vanguard Nigeria
Hero Magazine, 2021
︎Works in Collections
The Ingram Collection of Modern and Contemporary British Art: Yemaya o Yemoja (2021)
︎Solo Exhibitions
2021: Mumbo Jumbo, Koraï Project Space, Nicosia
2020: When I was 14 I set myself on fire (at 24 I would do it again), Takt Gallery, Berlin
︎Group Exhibitions
2024: A place that is not here, Yale Afro-American Cultural Center, New Haven, CT
2023: why do I always fall out of bed at night, 1st Year MFA Show, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2022: Young Masters, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London, U.K
2022: BODY ECSTATIC BODY ECLECTIC BODY ECCENTRIC, Ulay Foundation, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2021: Revolting Bodies, AtoposCVC, Athens, Greece
2021: The Ingram Prize, Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop, London, U.K
2020: New Wight Biennial, UCLA, U.S
︎Prizes and fellowships/grants dated by year
2024: Howardena Pindell Scholarship, Yale School of Art
2023: Emily Mason - Wolf Kahn Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center
2022: Young Masters Art Prize
︎Winner of The Ingram Prize, 2021
2021: Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Outstanding Artist Award
2021: Burberry Design Scholarship
2019: Vermont Studio Center Printmaking Fellowship
2019: Stiftung Berliner Leben A.I.R Scholarship
2017: Peggy Guggenheim, Veronica Bulgari Scholarship