Victoria-Idongesit Udondian

**Victoria-Idongesit Udondian** (amụrụ na 1982), nke a makwaara dịka **Victoria Udondian**, bụ onye omenkà Naịjirịa. Ọ bụ ọkachamara n'ọrụ ákwà, nrụnye, na nka ihe ngosi, ọrụ ya na-agụnyekarị isiokwu gbasara akụkọ ihe mere eme ndị isi ojii, ọrụ, na azụmaahịa zuru ụwa ọnụ nke uwe ndị ochie . Ọ bụ onye otu MacDowell nke 2019 na onye otu Guggenheim nke 2020.

## Akụkọ Ndụ
A mụrụ Victoria-Idongesit Udondian n'afọ 1982 na Akwa Ibom State .  Mgbe ọ gbasịrị ọzụzụ dịka onye na-emepụta ejiji na onye na-akwa ákwà, o nwetara akara ugo mmụta BA na eserese site na Mahadum Uyo n'afọ 2004. Udondian chetara na n'oge ọ nọ na Uyo, ọ gara ụgbọ ala abalị "ihe dị ka maịlụ 450 gaa Lagos" iji nweta agba mmanụ zuru oke maka ọmụmụ ihe mahadum ya.  O kwuru na El Anatsui, onye na-akpụ ihe na Ghana, bụ onye na-emetụta ọrụ ya. 

Na 2010, Udondian gara njem n'ofe Afrịka iji nweta mmekọrịta omenala na akụ na ụba nke kọntinent ahụ na azụmaahịa ụwa nke uwe aka ochie .  Ọrụ ákwà ya bụ *Aso Ikele (1948)* bụ akụkụ nke ihe ngosi nka Manchester nke 2012 *bụ We Face Forward: Art from West Africa Today* ; *AfricanaH* kwuru na ọ "na-ewere nchịkọta ákwà Whitworth dị ka ebe mmalite ya", ebe Bob Dickinson nke *Art Monthly* kwuru na ọ na-esite n'ụzọ "azụmahịa si egosi akụkọ ihe mere eme nke mmekọrịta West Africa na Manchester site na ụbọchị azụmaahịa ohu ruo mgbanwe ụlọ ọrụ mmepụta ihe", yana Pan-African Congress nke 1945.  Ọ pụtara na Venice Biennale nke 56th na 2015. Na 2016, ọ nwetara MFA na Sculpture na New Genres site na Mahadum Columbia ma gaa Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture . Na 2017, ọ malitere ọrụ ya bụ *The Republic of Unknown Territory* mgbe ọ ghọrọ nwa amaala Amerịka. 

Udondian bụ onye otu MacDowell Fellow na 2019. Na 2020, e nyere ya onyinye Guggenheim Fellowship na Fine Arts. Na 2022, o mere ihe ngosi mbụ ya na New York City naanị ya na Smack Mellon, *How Can I Be Nobody*, ihe ngosi nke na-eji ákwà ojii "iji gosi ndụ ndị ojii na aja aja furu efu n'ịchọ ọnọdụ ka mma". O zutere ọtụtụ obodo ndị si Brooklyn kwabata dịka akụkụ nke nnyocha ya maka *How Can I Be Nobody* .  Na mmekorita ya na onye na-agba egwu Raven McRae na onye na-eme ihe nkiri Danion Lewis, ọ malitere ihe ngosi *Nsi nam mi ke ndi* n'otu afọ ahụ. 

Ọrụ Udondian pụtara na British Textile Biennial nke afọ 2023. O meriri onyinye 2024 Anonymous Was a Woman Environmental Art Grant maka ọrụ ya *bụ Okrika Reclaimed* .  Mmekọrịta ya na Foundation for Contemporary Art, *Okrika Reclaimed* pụtara na Kantamanto na 12 Julaị 2025.  Udondian kwuru na ụfọdụ n'ime ọrụ ya, gụnyere *Okrika Reclaimed*, bụ iji jụọ ajụjụ gbasara ụdị uwe ochie site n'ịgwọ nsogbu na-eto eto nke ihe mkpofu ákwà na Africa. Ọ ga-apụta na Venice Biennale nke 61. 

Ayanna Dozier kwuru na isiokwu nke ihe osise Udondian na-agụnyekarị ụdị ọrụ "a na-ahụghị anya" na ọrụ ụmụ nwanyị a na-ahụkarị, gụnyere ọrụ ụlọ, ụlọ ọrụ ọrụ, na ụlọ ọrụ ákwà. Na mgbakwunye, Udondian na-elekwasị anya na mmekọrịta dị n'etiti uwe na njirimara dị ka isiokwu. 

Dịka ọ dị na 2022, Udondian bi na Lagos na Brooklyn.  Ọ bụkwa prọfesọ na-abịa ileta Center for the Arts, Mahadum dị na Buffalo, ọ rụkwara ọrụ dị ka onye nduzi nwa oge nke ọmụmụ ihe gụsịrị akwụkwọ n'oge ọkara afọ agụmakwụkwọ ha nke 2025.

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