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Ifeanyi Uzuegbunam
Ifeanyi Uzuegbunam is an early-career Nigerian artist whose practice is rooted in material research and process-based inquiry. Born in Anambra State and trained at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where he obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Fine and Applied Arts (Painting), his work draws from the experimental and critical legacy of the Nsukka Art School.
Working primarily with jute sacks, thread, rope, spray paint, and found organic materials, Uzuegbunam approaches material as both medium and archive. Jute sacks—objects embedded in systems of labour, trade, and circulation—function in his practice as carriers of memory and informal records of human experience. Through processes of stitching, patching, layering, printing, and erasure, he transforms these surfaces into sites of inscription informed by Nsibidi-inspired codes, symbolic markings, and fragmented forms. His practice is guided by the concept of enigma as a method of inquiry, embracing ambiguity and fragility as productive spaces for research. Oscillating between abstraction and figuration, rupture and repair, his work investigates materiality, identity, consumerism, and humanism. By foregrounding process, Uzuegbunam positions the studio as a site of research and knowledge production, where making becomes a form of archiving.
He lives and works in Lagos, Nigeria.
Ifeanyi Uzuegbunam is an early-career Nigerian artist whose practice is rooted in material research and process-based inquiry. Born in Anambra State and trained at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where he obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Fine and Applied Arts (Painting), his work draws from the experimental and critical legacy of the Nsukka Art School.
Working primarily with jute sacks, thread, rope, spray paint, and found organic materials, Uzuegbunam approaches material as both medium and archive. Jute sacks—objects embedded in systems of labour, trade, and circulation—function in his practice as carriers of memory and informal records of human experience. Through processes of stitching, patching, layering, printing, and erasure, he transforms these surfaces into sites of inscription informed by Nsibidi-inspired codes, symbolic markings, and fragmented forms.
His practice is guided by the concept of enigma as a method of inquiry, embracing ambiguity and fragility as productive spaces for research. Oscillating between abstraction and figuration, rupture and repair, his work investigates materiality, identity, consumerism, and humanism.
By foregrounding process, Uzuegbunam positions the studio as a site of research and knowledge production, where making becomes a form of archiving.
He lives and works in Lagos, Nigeria.
