b. 1993, Lagos, Nigeria
Lives and works in London, UK
Alexander Ikhide is a multidisciplinary visual artist working in collage (analogue/digital), drawing/painting and photography interrogating issues of representation, identity, history, sexuality, gender and race. With a focus on black male identity in relation to queerness, through deconstructing and re-examining notions of black masculinity and masculine performance subjectively as well as engaging with an art historical context of various queer practitioners who also explore the discourse of gender, race and sexuality in their practice. Understanding that the personal and political simultaneously serves as a point of departure and arrival upon which the foundation to his ideas stem from and is explored expansively in his practice, both being inseparable and interchangeable.
He is currently undergoing postgraduate study in MA Photography at Royal College of Art, London.
EDUCATION
Ongoing MA Photography, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2014 BA (Hons) Contemporary Art & Professional Studies, Bath Spa University, Bath, UK
2013 FDA Contemporary Art & Professional Studies, Bath Spa University, Bath, UK
EXHIBITIONS
2021 KingDom, Arts Hub Studios, London, UK
2018 Afropunk x 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning Zine Launch Exhibition, London, UK
2017 MY AFRICA, AACDD (African and Afro Caribbean Design Diaspora) Showcase, Millennium Point, Birmingham, UK
2017 Diaspora Dialogue, Winn’s Gallery, London, UK
2017 Unhinged: Ain’t I Beautiful? III, Project Mission Gallery, London, UK
2017 People of Colour : Colouring, Forty Seven Ldn Gallery, London, UK
2014 Past, Present, Future, AACDD (African and Afro Caribbean Design Diaspora) Festival, London Design Festival, Oxo Tower, London, UK
2014 The Lonely Londoners: Keep the water Coloured, Trispace Gallery, London, UK
2013 Moving on, AACDD (African and Afro Caribbean Design Diaspora) Festival, London Design Festival, Oxo Tower, London, UK
2013 BS1 Open Arts Trail, The Station (Creative Youth Network) Gallery Space, Bristol, UK
2013 13 Baker’s Dozen, Centrespace Gallery, Bristol, UK
AWARDS
2022 Imperial College + RCA EDI Portrait Prize
COMMISSIONS
2021 Black Britain : Writing Back, Penguin Books UK, Cover Art Commission
2020 Kensington and Chelsea Art Week (KCAW) x High Street Windows, Window Installation
2018 AFROPUNK x 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning : People – Art – Resistance Zine Commission
PUBLICATIONS
2021 Musée Magazine, Issue No.25 - Curation
2020 Portrait of Humanity Vol 2 , Published by Hoxton Mini Press