09/24/2020
IUS Ceramics is thrilled to welcome Nigerian artist, Ngozi-Omeje Ezema for a virtual visiting artist lecture via Zoom on Wednesday, Sept. 30th at 11:00am. Please email Brian Harper at [email protected] for the Zoom link. Ngozi-Omeje Ezema graduated from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in 2005 and later her Masters of Fine Arts from the same Institution. After receiving her MFA, she was retained in her Alma Mata to teach Ceramics since May, 2009. She has shown her work at the international women workshop (Art in the Dailies) at the Goethe Institute in Ghana, the CCA Lagos/Triangle International Artist Workshop, Nigeria, Art in Public Space on Ecology, Goethe Institute, Nigeria. Additionally, she has exhibited in the Dakar Biennale 2020 in Senegal, the Korea Ceramics Biennale, Icheon World Ceramics Centre and Cheongju Craft Biennale, 2019, South Korea, and the 60th Faenza Biennale Prize Italy, 2018. Her Ceramic installation ‘Imagine Jonah II’ was part of the First International Biennale in Central China and ‘In My Garden there are Many Colours II’ –First West African Art Fair (ART X), Lagos, 2016. Furthermore, she was a resident artist in Sevshoon Art Centre, Seattle, USA, 2010 and configured the ‘Think Tea, Think cup I’ as a permanent installation. Her works of art are configured with globular clay units, clay rings, clay leaves, strings and savaged flip flops from her environment, using them to accentuate her place in her immediate socio-cultural context. These artworks are paradox of hope and despair, depicting how strength is drawn from pain and disappointment, thereby dialoguing between the two concepts.
