Wilfred Ukpong

**Wilfred Ukpong** nyɛla French-Nigerian ŋun mali nuuni tuunbaŋsim bɔbigu ka lahi nyɛ vihiro-vihiro ŋun vihibu jendi yaɣa pam. O tumanima pam jendila ʒilɛli yɛlimuɣisira din be Niger Delta ka di nyɛla di peetiro tum duzuɣu la zuɣu.

## Biɛhigu mini tuma
Wilfred Ukpong nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so southern Nigeria. o pa nyɛla ŋun tumdi Oxford (UK), Clermont-Ferrand (France), ni Eket (Nigeria). O tuma mali "Afrofuturism" mini "mysticism" n-kuri bukaatanima ni di baligi Niger Delta  ʒilɛli yɛlimuɣisira ka di nyɛla di peetiro tuma duzuɣu maa zuɣu.  Ukpong deei la o "BA/MA in Fine Arts" shɛhira gbaŋ  Ecole Supérieure d'Art Lorient, France, ka deei o PhD shɛhira gbaŋ Oxford Brookes University, UK. Ŋuna n-nyɛ ninvuɣi so ŋun kpa Blazing Century Studios din be Nigeria, France ni United States ka lahi daretiri li.

Tum yuuni 2020, Ukpong tumanima shɛŋa nyɛla din be Alliance Française/Mike Adenuga Centre (Nigeria), FotoFest, Houston (USA), Institut Français du Nigeria Abuja (Nigeria), MARKK Museum Hamburg (Germany), Pipe Factory Glasgow (UK), Royal Society of Arts, London (UK), Welt Museum Vienna (Austria) ni din pahi pahi.

## Exhibitions

### Selected Solo Exhibitions
**Wilfred Ukpong: Niger-Delta / Future-Cosmos*, Autograph ABP, London, 16 February – 1 June 2024. Curated by Mark Sealy
**Blazing Century 1*, French Institute in Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria, 2022
**Future – World – EXV*, at Public Ecology Film Festival, Film Screening and Symposium at the Association for Visual Arts in Cape Town, 2022
**Composing A Cause: A Meditative Sonic Visual Experience* curated Film Screening, Performance and Conversation by Wilfred Ukpong, Professor Ray Lee and Hugo Tromp at Autograph-ABP London, 2021
**Future – World – EXV,* Royal Society of Art London, Film Screening and Conversation
**Future – World – EXV: PRELUDE 2*, film Screening, and Conversation at the ESSAY FILM FESTIVAL LONDON, 2021
**BC-1: Niger-Delta/Future-Cosmos*, Alliance Francaise de Lagos/Mike Adenuga Centre Lagos, 2021

### Selected Group Exhibitions

* *Africa Rising: 21st-Century African Photography*, Fitchburg Art Museum, Massachusetts, 2024
* *Science Fiction(s) - If there was a tomorrow*, Welt Museum Wien (World Museum Vienna), 2023
* *Wasser Botschaften/Water Massages*, Museum am Rothenbaum–World Cultures and Arts (MARKK), 2023
* *The Colour of the Climate Crisis*, Pipe Factory, Glasgow, Scotland, 31 October – 2 November 2021. Organised by Do The Green Thing.
* *African Cosmologies — Photography, Time and the Other*, FotoFest Biennial 2020, Houston, USA. Curated by Mark Sealy. Postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
* Diana Ejaita and Wilfred Ukpong Exhibition at Omenka Gallery Lagos, 2019

## Publications with contributions by Ukpong
**African Cosmologies: Photography, Time and the Other*. Schilt, 2020. Co-edited Mark Sealy and Steven Evans. Exhibition catalogue. .

## Filmography
**Future – World – EXV* (2019) – directed by Ukpong

## Pina
Yuni 2010, Ukpong's saha waɣila tuma *Blazing Century 1* daa nyɛla din deei liɣiri sɔŋsim Prince Claus Fund Amsterdam nima sani. O shinii *Future World* (2017) daa di la Golden City Gates Excellence Award din daa niŋ ITB Berlin yuuni 2018. Yuuni 2024, Ukpong yuli daa boli ya pahi Saltzman Prize tuuli niŋbu din daa yina Lisa Saltzman.

## Shikuru
*PhD, Fine/Studio Arts, Oxford Brookes University, UK
*MFA, Fine/Studio Arts, Ecole Supérieure d'Art Lorient, France
*BA, Fine/Studio Arts, Ecole Supérieure d'Art Lorient, France

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