Kosisochukwu Nnebe

Kosisochukwu Nnebe is a Nigerian-Canadian conceptual artist and researcher working across installation, lens- and time-based media, and sculpture. Her work challenges dominant narratives by transforming the vernacular and commonplace—from native languages and foodstuffs such as cassava to physical spaces such as nail salons—into counter-archives of colonial histories. Through her practice, she excavates and reclaims gendered histories of resistance, offering transgressive representations and understandings of Blackness rooted in anti-imperial relationality. At its core, Nnebe's practice is invested in anti-imperial worldbuilding through the troubling of colonial logics and speculative reimaginings of otherwise pasts, presents, and futures.

As a self-taught artist, Nnebe uses her practice to critically engage with her educational background in economics, development, and sociology.

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We Have The Cure

The Seeds We Carry

Aunt Nancy

An Inheritance A Threat A Haunting

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Kosisochukwu Nnebe (1993) is a multimedia artist and researcher born in Nigeria, currently based in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Her practice encompasses installation, performance, digital media and collaborative research projects.

She is a 2025 resident at the Jan van Eyck Academie and a 2023 awardee of the G.A.S. Fellowship initiated by Yinka Shonibare CBE RA. She was also an artist-in-residence at El Espacio 23 (Miami) with the Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA).

Her work has been presented internationally, including at NADA New York, the Art Museum of Toronto, and AXENEO7, with solo exhibitions at Green Space (Miami, 2024), BGSU Gallery (Bowling Green, Ohio, 2024), and SAW Centre (Ottawa, 2024). Recent group exhibitions include Atelier La Coulée (Montreal, 2024), the Art Museum of Toronto (2024), and Tolhuistuin (Amsterdam, 2023).

She holds degrees in economics, development, and sociology from McGill University and the London School of Economics, and has worked professionally in social and environmental policy with the Canadian government.

Her work is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and held in the collections of the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Projet Casa, and the Canada Council for the Arts.

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