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Anietie Ekanem (b. 1996, London)

Education

2023–2025: MFA Painting/Printmaking, Yale School of Art

2015–2018: Bachelor of Arts in History of Art, University of Oxford

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

2020–2021: Interdisciplinary Art & Theory Program, with Jack Shainman Gallery

2019: Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

Solo Exhibitions

2021: Mumbo Jumbo, Koraï Project Space, Nicosia

2020: Archives, Process: Images of the African and Black Diaspora, Zoetrope, Athens, Greece

2020: When I was 14 I set myself on fire at 24 I would do it again, Takt Gallery, Berlin

Group Exhibitions

2025: Power Line: a Yale MFA Show, presented by Perrotin, New York, NY

2025: Power Line; Painting/Printmaking Thesis Exhibition, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

2025: The 11th Hour, Art Black MFA Show, 32 Edgewood Gallery, New Haven, CT

2024: Upward Spiral, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

2024: DAD BODS, Curated by Charlotte Gruessing, The Hole, New York, NY

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? — 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

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/Fellowships

2024: Howardena Pindell Scholarship, Yale School of Art

2023: Emily Mason Wolf Kahn Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center

2022: Young Masters Art Prize, Cynthia Corbett Gallery

2021: Ingram Prize Recipient 

2021: Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Outstanding Artist Award

2021: Burberry Design Scholarship

2019: Vermont Studio Center Printmaking Fellowship

2017: Peggy Guggenheim, Veronica Bulgari Scholarship