b. 1993, Lagos, Nigeria
Lives and works in London, UK
Alexander Ikhide is a multidisciplinary visual artist working in photography, collage (analogue/digital), painting and drawing, exploring ideas of the body as well as a merging of photography and painting to produce mixed media works on paper. Through a method of gestural abstraction and mark making, taking on influence from an abstract expressionist tradition alongside ideas explored from the surrealist and symbolist movements which have origins and roots in pre-colonial African traditions and rituals. A mining of the unconscious and psychic projections that lay dormant are visualised and made manifest in the physical, in order to process through and understand what it means to exist both in the physical and spiritual dimensions of one's own being as a person of both African and queer identity.
EDUCATION
2022 MA Photography, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2014 BA (Hons) Contemporary Art & Professional Studies, Bath Spa University, Bath, UK
EXHIBITIONS
2023 Homotopic, Cromwell Place, London, UK
2022 The Black Effect, Hogan Lovells, London, UK
2022 In Conversation, Shapero Rare Books Gallery, London, UK
2022 RCA Degree Show 2022, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2021 KingDom, Arts Hub Studios, London, 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
AWARDS
2021 Imperial College 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
2023 The Black Joy Project, Harper Collins, New York, United States
2021 Musée Magazine, Issue No.25 - Curation, New York, United States
2020 Portrait of Humanity Vol 2, Hoxton Mini Press, London, UK