Yadichinma Ukoha-Kalu is an experimental multi-media artist and illustrator whose practice explores line, form, space, and boundaries, expressed through various media including painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, metal work, film, and technology.
Yadichinma Ukoha-Kalu is an experimental multi-media artist and illustrator based in Lagos, Nigeria. Her practice explores line, form, space, and boundaries, which she expresses through various media, such as painting, drawing, metal work, sculpture, film, and technology.
Yadichinma often creates multi-dimensional environments that combine abstract elements, textures, and materials to interact with one another. Her interest in the process of creation inspires her to approach life and her surroundings with a child-like sense of wonder and curiosity. Yadichinma's fascination with materials drives her to expand her knowledge and understanding of the objects around her, as she believes that each object holds its own world and system.
Solo exhibitions
In A Language of My Own, Gallery Attis Dakar & 1-54 Art Fair, Marrakech, 2024
A Plant You Cannot Kill, Fresco Gallery, 2023
Saffron in the Desert, kò, Lagos, 2020
Crossing Borders, A Whitespace Creative Agency, Lagos, 2013
Group shows
Masking The Unseen, Sabo Art Advisory, Lagos, 2022
Artyrama Pop-Up Show in Lagos, 2017
Prizm Art Fair, Miami, 2017
Art X Lagos, 2016
The Young Contemporaries, Rele Gallery, Lagos, 2016
Woman In Bloom, Freedom Park Lagos, 2015
Yadi was nominated for the Orisha Prize, Gallerie Appartment, Paris (2017) and the Swiss Vontobel (A New Gaze) Photography Prize (2018).In 2020, she participated in the Art Dubai and Galerie Atiss Dakar residency programmes.