ABOUT
Aisha Olamide Seriki (b1998) is a Nigerian multi-disciplinary artist in London, specialising in fine art photography and sculpture. Seriki works from a canon of personal histories which splice contemporary realities. Her practice is holistic and embodied, subverting formal photographic traditions. Cosmological systems such as the Yoruba Spiritual Tradition have informed the multisensory approach Seriki has to documentation, communication and creation. Through optics and trickery, she challenges the rigid imagination of self, creating space in the archive for a wider definition.
Aisha graduated with a first-class honours degree in Global Liberal Arts from SOAS University of London in 2020. In 2021 she was selected as a finalist for the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize. In 2023 she completed her MA photography programme at the Royal College of Art, winning the New Photography Prize and the SW Darkroom Award for her degree project 'Ori Inu'.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Leam PhotoFest 2023
PHOTIQ, Leamington Spa, October 2023
ARC Salon
Arc Painswick, Painswick, October UK
Soulful Expressions
Cambridge University, Cambridge, October 2023
Recent Graduates Exhibition
Affordable Art Fair, London, October 2023
CSR ART Programme
Travers Smith, London UK, September 2023
Gatehouse ART Programme
Gatehouse Chambers, London, September 2023
RCA Degree show
Royal College of Art, London, June 2023
Our Lives
30 Fenchurch Street, London, June 2023
Becoming British
Bloc Projects, Sheffield, June 2022
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize
Cromwell Place, London, November 2021
No Shoes on My Carpet
Kanaiza, Online, July 2020
BLACK ART MATTERS
Maag Halle, Switzerland, July 2020
Night School Graduation
NikeLab, London, November 2019
The Creative Women’s Showcase
SOAS University, London, August 2019
FOR MY NEGUS AND NIGIST
Goldsmiths University, London, December 2018
BLACKONBLACK
The Waiting Room, London, July 2018
TALKS AND WORKSHOPS
Arts as A Means For Development Panel , London Development Symposium, Online 2023
Artist Talk, Renaissance Foundation, Online, 2023
Artiq Annual Launch, Fidelio Cafe, Clerkenwell, 2023
Becoming British Panel, Bloc Projects, London, 2022
History of Photography in Africa, SOAS University, London 2021
Self as home, Museum of the Home, London, 2021
AWARDS
SW Darkrooms Award, 2023
New Photography Prize, 2023