Victor Ehikhamenor
Photo: Emmanuel Iduma
Victor Ehikhamenor is a Nigerian multimedia artist, photographer and writer. He has been prolific in producing abstract, symbolic and politically/historically motivated works.
A 2020 National Artist in Residence at the Neon Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada, Ehikhamenor is also a 2016 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellow. He has held several solo exhibitions and his works have been included in numerous group exhibitions and biennales, including: The 57th Venice Biennale as part of the Nigerian Pavilion (2017), 5th Mediations Biennale in Poznan, Poland (2016), Dak'Art–12th Biennale of Contemporary African Art in Dakar, Senegal (2016), Biennale Jogja XIII in Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2015).
As a writer he has published fiction and critical essays with academic journals, magazines and newspapers around the world including The New Yοrk Times, Guernica magazine, BBC, CNN Online, The Washington Post, etc.
Ehikhamenor is the founder of Angels and Muse, a thought laboratory dedicated to the promotion and development of contemporary African art and literature in Lagos, Nigeria.