ABOUT
Aisha Olamide Seriki (b. 1998) is a Nigerian-British lens-based multidisciplinary artist specialising in fine art photography, printmaking, and sculpture. Her process-led practice explores the photograph as a haptic object, resisting the notion of photography as a purely visual medium. Seriki utilises culturally specific materials such as bronze, brass, iroko, and sapele, combining them with analogue and alternative photographic processes, metal fabrication, and wood carving to assemble layered photo-sculptural objects that physically manifest her worldview.
Her work visualises the dynamic balance that emerges when contradictory forces intersect. Symbolism, spiritualism, and cosmological systems such as Ifa inform Seriki’s multisensory approach to creation. She uses the historical past as a method of contextualising contemporary existence, investigating how cultural memory is embedded within and activated by objects.
Her embodied practice subverts formal photographic traditions, questioning the camera’s historical association with truth and objectivity. Through optical interventions and visual manipulation, Seriki challenges rigid imaginations of the self, creating space within the archive for an expanded definition of being.
Aisha was awarded the Sanctuary Scholarship in 2017 and graduated with a first-class honours degree in Global Liberal Arts from SOAS University of London in 2020. In 2021, she was a finalist for the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize. In 2023, she was awarded the Frank Bowling Scholarship and completed the Photography MA at the Royal College of Art. The following year, she earned her MFA in Fine Arts and Humanities. Aisha’s project Orí Inú received the RCA’s New Photography Prize, the SW Darkroom Award, and the inaugural JM Finn Graduate Artist Award (2023). In May 2024, she won the V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography. By April 2025, Aisha had been selected for the RCA BLK x G.A.S residency at the G.A.S Foundation, Lagos, Nigeria. In 2026, she will complete the Mentorship Artist Residency at the Indigo Arts Alliance, Maine, Portland.
AWARDS
V&A Parasol Prize for Women in Photography, 2024
Photo London x Nikon People's Choice Award
JM Finn Studio Award, 2023
SW Darkrooms Award, 2023
New Photography Prize, 2023
Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2021, Finalist
UPCOMING SHOW
Where Gravity Loses Force
Tafeta Gallery, London, March 5 - April 18, 2026
SOLO & DUO SHOWS
Of Presence and Absence
Kó Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria, February 7 - March 21 2026
Orí Inú
DoyleWham Gallery, Shoreditch, May 23rd - July 27th 2024
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Mirroring Dialogue
36 Thurloe Place, London, September 2025
Earth, Memory, and The Spaces We Inhabit: Matrilineal Legacies in Contemporary Architecture
Now Gallery, London, June 2025
Photo London
DoyleWham, Somerset House, London, May 2025
Female Thresholds x photoSCHWEIZ
Kongresshaus Zürich, Switzerland, February 2025
I Would Rather Be Horizontal
Bomb Factory Art Foundation Marylebone, London, February 2025
A Pocket Full of Plenty
Hypa Gallery Netil House, London, January 2025
I am because you know me: a love letter to womanhood
Photo Fringe, London, September 2024
Voices of Black Artistry
Christies, London, September 2024
Fifteen
Soho Revue, London, September 2024
Pathways
ST.ART Gallery, London, August 2024
RCA 2024 Degree Show
RCA Battersea, London, June 2024
V&A Parasol Prize for Women in Photography 2024
Peckham24, Copeland Gallery, London, May 2024
Photo London
DoyleWham, Somerset House, London, May 2024
Inverted Negatives
Notting Hill Arts Club, London, March 2024
The Graduate Art Show
Vanner Gallery, Salisbury, January 2024
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 2023 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
‘What’s Your Solution’, Cambridge School, London, February - March 2024
IWD Artist Talk, Cooley LLP, London, March 2024
The Art of Process, Cooley LLP, London, October 2024
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
PUBLISHED ARTICLES
June 2024
Embodied Creative Practice as a method for cultural recovery.