Chidinma Nnoli (b. 1998 Enugu, Nigeria) is an artist working primarily with painting. Her practice contemplates the importance of a single subject’s embodied experience(s), overlaying the past unto the present while insisting on the emotional link between body and space often in conflict with self and a background mostly saturated with religion and gendered obligations.
Nnoli earned her BFA from the University of Benin and has gone on to participate in select solo exhibitions including Pieces of My Peace of Mind (2023) PM/AM Gallery, When Will My Feet Catch Fire? (2022) Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, Not all who wander are Lost (Wanderlust) (2021) The Armory Show, New York, To Wander Untamed (2021) Rele Gallery, Lagos.
She has also participated in several group exhibitions including "Pictures Girls Make": Portraiture Through the Lens of Progress (2023) Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, Femme Noir: Artists, Muses, and Freedoms (2023) Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Where the Wild Roses Grow (2023) Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, What’s Now (2023) PM/AM Gallery, London, The Invincible Hands (2021), Shyllon Museum, Lagos, Orita Meta (2021), Rele Gallery, Los Angeles and In Situ (2021), Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York.
Nnoli is an alumni of several residencies including Ox-Bow Summer Artist-in-Residence Program (2023) Michigan, Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency (2023) Florida, PM/AM Residency (2023) London, and Rele Art Foundation Residency (2019 Ekiti, Nigeria
Her works are a part of several notable collections and have been featured in Hyperallergic, The New York Times, Colossal and Vogue. She currently lives and works in Lagos.