CV - UFUOMA ESSI (b.1995, London) 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Is My Living in Vain,  Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery, Auckland, 2023
Is My Living in Vain,  Le Magasin, Centre National d'Art Contemporain (CNAC), Grenoble, 2023
Is My Living in Vain, Gasworks, London,  October 2022
All That You Can’t Leave Behind, Public Gallery, London,  2022
From Where We Land, South London Gallery, June  2021

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Unbound Performance As Rupture, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin 2023-24
ABUNDANCE IN TOGETHERNESS, Cubitt, London, 2023
Right of Way: Ufuoma Essi, Dan Guthrie, Arjuna Neuman, LUX, London, 2023
La Position de l'Amour, Le Magasin, Centre National d'Art Contemporain (CNAC), Grenoble, 2022
Brewers Towner International, Towner Eastbourne, October 2022
Dancing Plague, GAMeC Bergamo, Italy, March 2022
Ata koia!, TeTuhi, New Zealand, February 2022
Not Without Joy, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, November 2021
On The Road: Chocolate Cities, Tone Memphis, 2021
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2020, South London Gallery, May 2021
An Infinity of Traces, Lisson Gallery, London, April 2021
PERIPHERY: Narration Group, South London Gallery, May 2019
Concrete Salon, Barbican Centre, London, April 2019

SELECTED SCREENINGS AND FILM FESTIVALS
International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2024 
The Chicago International Film Festival, 2023
Black Star Film Festival, Philadelphia, August 2023
39th Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, June 2023 
30th Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, April 2023 
Screening Series | Family Lines Project, Douglas Hyde Gallery (online), January 2022
17th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, September 2021
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, May 2021
Prismatic Ground Film Festival, April 2021
Athena Film Festival, New York, February 2021
BLK Docs x Maysles Documentary Center: INSTANT ANCESTRY, New York, November 2020.
1708 Gallery x Afrikana Film Festival, InLight Richmond Festival, Richmond,  2020.
CinemAfrica Film Festival - Picture A Black Woman Riding Thunder, Sweden, October 2020
Black Star Film Festival, Philadelphia, August 2020.
Club Des Femmes - Between Us We Have Everything We Need, London, August 2020
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, April 2020
Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago, March 2020
All That You Can’t Leave Behind - LA Film Forum at MOCA, Los Angeles, November 2019
03 - Mascara Film Club, London, September 2019.
How Did You Get Into My House?, South London Gallery, April 2018

RESIDENCIES
Amant Studio & Research Residency 2024
Future Plan Artist Residency. Hospitalfield, 2023-24
Inspiration Lab Artist-in-Residence Program at UArts, 2023
Jerwood Somerset House Studios Residency 2022 -2024 
Cove Park Funded Residency 2022
Postgraduate Artist in Residence, South London Gallery, 2020-21
Black Cultural Archives x Languid Hands, Digital Residency 2020


EDUCATION
Syllabus VI, Spike Island, Wysing Arts Centre, Iniva, Studio Voltaire and Eastside Projects, 2020-21
Into The Wild, Chisenhale Studios, 2019
University of Pennsylvania, 2016-2017
University College London, History BA, 2014 -2018


AWARDS
The Taurus Prize for Visual Arts 2024-2025
LOEWE Foundation and Studio Voltaire Award 2021-23
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2020

PUBLICATIONS

From Where We Land: Ufuoma Essi - Published by South London Gallery 2022 


SELECTED PRESS
Ufuoma Essi “Is My Living in Vain” at Magasin CNAC, Grenoble
One’s Place Within: Ufuoma Essi and Rhea Dillon in Conversation with Alex Bennet