2014
MFA Illustration as Visual Essay, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, USA
Born 1988, New Jersey, USA.
Lives and works in Athens, Greece.
Boy.Brother.Friend, Intimate Acts of Rebellion, Matthew Benson, 29 July 2023
Frieze, Rujeko Hockley's Top Picks From Frieze Los Angeles Viewing Room 2023, 14 February 2023
contmporaryartdaily.com, Chioma Ebinama, A Spiral Shell, 3 January 2022
metalmagazine.eu, Jack Whitacker, Chioma Ebinama - Play is a form of resistance, 6 December 2021
contemporaryartsociety.org, Ilaria Puri Purini, Friday Dispatch - Chioma Ebinama: A Spiral Shell at Maureen Paley, London, 3 December 2021
artforum.com, Gwen Burlington, Chioma Ebinama, Critics’ Picks, London, 30 November 2021
frieze.com, Adjoa Armah, Chioma Ebinama’s Afro-Diasporic Mythmaking, 25 November 2021
somethingcurated.com, Interview: Chioma Ebinama On Collage, Colour & Her New Exhibition At Maureen Paley, 8 November 2021
MFA Illustration as Visual Essay, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, USA
BFA Sociology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA
Silver Medal, 3X3 Magazine International Illustration
SVA Alumni Illustration Award
Joan Coyne Illustration Award (2014 – 2016)
AKA Broadway Scholarship (Runner Up)
Communication Arts Student Showcase
This Mud-Formed Life, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway
The Eyes of the Beloved are Everywhere, Maureen Paley: Morena di Luna, Hove, UK
The Eleventh House, The Breeder, Athens, Greece
tipota, Fortnight Institute, New York, USA
A Spiral Shell, Maureen Paley, London
mud & butterflies, Galeria Catinca Tabacaru, Bucharest, Romania
Lay All Your Love On Me, Salon 94, New York, USA
Leave the thorns and take the rose, The Breeder Gallery, Athens, Greece
Now I only believe in…Love, Fortnight Institute, New York, NY, USA
Mammywater, curated by Diego Anay, BAF Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA
Anunu: Notes on the Divine Feminine, curated by Zina Saro Wiwa, Boy's Quarters Project Space, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Gods of the Wilderness, IAMISIGO Showroom, Lagos, Nigeria
Penumbras, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York, USA
Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st -Century Art and Poetics, LACMA, Los Angeles, USA
Undersea, Hastings Contemporary, Hastings, UK
Sea Inside, Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, UK
Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st -Century Art and Poetics, LACMA, Los Angeles, California, USA
The lnfinite Woman, Foundation Carmignac, Porquerolles Island, France
Lavinia, Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles, California, USA
Amalia Melancholia, The Breeder Athens, Athens, Greece
Body Full Of Stars, curated by Kimia Ferdowsi Kline, at Ceysson & Bénétière New York, NY, USA
Image impressions, curated by Faridah Folawiyo, by ff-projects, Lagos, Nigeria
Deli Gallery CDMX, Mexico City, Mexico
Cosmos, l'amante del vulcano, Fondazione BTS Como Arte, Como, Italy
The Lathe of Heaven, curated by Amalia Vekri, Haus N, Athens, Greece
Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & The Subterranean Imaginary, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK; travelling to The Glucksman, Cork, Ireland and RAMM, Exeter, UK
The Company She Keeps, Tiwani Contemporary, Lagos, Nigeria
Animal Kingdom, Ame Nue, Hamburg, Germany
Nine Lives, Fortnight Institute, New York, NY, USA
Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond, The Tang Museum at Skidmore College, New York, NY, USA
The Serpent’s Eye, Musée d’art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne, Rochechouart, France
This Point is Exactly Midway Between Two Other Points, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, USA
Alien Landscape, 303 Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Ambra Nera, curated by George Vamvakidis and Sathis Panagoulis, The Breeder Gallery, Athens, Greece
Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
Crossing the Sands, curated by Veronica Flom and Camilo Godoy, West Harlem Art Fund, Governor's Island, New York, NY, USA
Interior Landscapes, curated by Natasha Becker, Paola Gallio, Yulia Topichy, Assembly Room, New York, NY, USA
In a Silent Way, co-curated by Bisi Silva and Stephanie Baptist, Dak'Art Biennale Off-Site, Dakar, Senegal
Wide Rainbow, Drawing with water and meditative labor, art workshop with Woman's Prison Association, presented by: Maia Ruth Lee, New York, NY, USA
Arts in Parts, Mamiwata around the world, craftworkshop, presented by: Diwa Tamrong, Rockaway Beach, New York, USA
Wellington Management Meet the Artist Series, presented by: Karen Pfefferle Boston, Massachusetts
Nomadique Artist Dinner Series, Artist Talk, presented by: Sasha Arutyonova, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Women Who Draw: Short Talks at Society of Illustrators, On Art and Survivalism, presented by: Julia Rothman, New York, NY, USA
Pocoapoco A.IR., Oaxaca, Mexico
Studio 401 New York A.I.R., Brooklyn, NY, USA
SVA Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY, USA
16 by 16 A.I.R., Lagos, Nigeria
Canal Street Market Residency, New York, NY, USA
Blegvad, Kaye, Ebinama, Chioma cont., The Pink Book, Chronicle Books
Price, Pamela, LACMA Unveils New Exhibit Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st Century Art and Poetics, latfusa.com, 14 December 2024
Benzine, Vittoria, Mapping Constellations Across ‘Body Full of Stars’, fadmagazine.com, 28 June 2023
–––, Chioma Ebinama: The Eyes of the Beloved are Everywhere, contemporaryartdaily.com, 2023
–––, Chioma Ebinama: The Eyes of the Beloved are Everywhere, GalleriesNow: The Weekender, galleriesnow.net, 1 September 2023
Adele, Iyanuoluwa, The Eyes of the Beloved are Everywhere: Chioma Ebinama’s First Solo Exhibition at Morena di Luna, Hove, artnewsafrica.com, 29 June 2023
Benson, Matthew, Intimate Acts of Rebellion, Chioma Ebinama, boybrotherfriend.com, 29 July 2023; in print: Boy.Brother.Friend, Issue 6, Summer 2023, pp. 134 - 135
–––, Rujeko Hockley's Top Picks From Frieze Los Angeles Viewing Room 2023, frieze.com, 14 February 2023
Krauss, Jennifer, The Best Children’s Books of 2022, nytimes.com, 8 December 2022
Judah, Hettie, Hollow Earth review – digging deep into the curious history of caves in art, theguardian.com, 21 October 2022
Durón, Maximilíano, Worlds Collide as Galleries Converge for an Art and Design Fair in the Heart of Paris, 20 October 2022
–––, Listen to a Future Fable From Lydia Millet: “The Butterfly Man”, lithub.com, 11 October 2022
Woodcock, Victoria, Artist Tschabalala Self: ‘I tend to be a bit nosy’, ft.com, 30 September 2022
Austin, Nwakunor, Gregory, Prempeh In You Were, You Are, And you Always Will Be, guardian.ng, 11 September 2022
Berry, Kate; Hilmer, Georgia, Two Creative Couples Call This Delaware County Former Schoolhouse Home, domino.com, 9 September 2022
Hilmer, Georgia; Illus. Ebinama, Chioma, FLORA-Z, Planterdoos Press, Printed by Brilliant Graphics, 31 August 2022
Dawson, Janet, Emile and the Field by Kevin Young illustrated by Chioma Ebinama, kidsbooksaday.com, 23 August 2022
Hays, Gregory, The Last Reversal, nybooks.com, 18 August 2022
Wetter, Erica, Spring 2022 Flying Starts: Chioma Ebinama, publishersweekly.com, 24 June 2022
–––, Female Artists Showcase Skills In The Company She Keps, tribuneonlineng.com, 5 June 2022
–––, Children's Books to Celebrate Easter, Passover, and Spring 2022, publishersweekly.com, 28 March 2022
Krauss, Jennifer, Stop and Smell the Roses, nytimes.com, 1 April 2022
Young, Kevin, Ebinama, Chioma illus. Emile and the Field, Random House Children’s Books, 15 March 2022
Fisher, Maraya, 4 Emerging Fashion Photographers To Follow Now, coveteur.com, 22 January 2022
Adjoa Armah, Chioma Ebinama’s Afro-Diasporic Mythmaking, frieze.com, 25 November 2021
Budds, Diana, Murals on 9 City Buildings Will Help You Process Your Pandemic Feelings, curbed.com, 8 February 2021
Burlington, Gwen, Chioma Ebinama, Critics’ Picks, London, artforum.com, 30 November 2021
Burns, Sean, Trouillot, Terence, Stead, Chloe, Frieze Editors on the Artists and Trends of 2021, frieze.com, 17 December 2021
Cornelia, Smith, Inside My Collection: Schwanda Rountree, artsy.net, 23 July 2021
Jones, Jonathan, From The Card Counter to Diana Ross: A complete guide to this week’s entertainment, Going Out: Art, theguardian.com, 6 November 2021
Lesser, Casey, Inside My Collection: Pete Scantland, artsy.net, 29 April 2021
Machando, Danilo, Bold Colors and Surreal Compositions Upend the Monotony of Commercial Billboards, hyperallergic.com, 18 February 2021
Puri Purini, Ilaria, Friday Dispatch - Chioma Ebinama: A Spiral Shell at Maureen Paley, London, contemporaryartsociety.org, 3 December 2021
S. Cohn, Alison and Marsh, Ariana, The Culture Lover’s February Guide, harpersbazaar.com, 1 February 2021
Whitacker, Jack, Chioma Ebinama, Play is a Form of Resistance, metalmagazine.eu, 6 December 2021
–––, Chioma Ebinama, A Spiral Shell. Maureen Paley Gallery, en.martincid.com, 19 October 2021
–––, Chioma Ebinama, There are many ways to live a life, werepresent.wetransfer.com, August 2021
–––, Interview: Chioma Ebinama On Collage, Colour & Her New Exhibition At Maureen Paley, somethingcurated.com, 8 November 2021
Bozoni, Argyro, Chioma Ebinama: A talented artist from Nigeria and her work “Leave the thorns and take the rose” at The Breeder Gallery, elculture.gr, 1 September 2020
Diakosavvas, Alexandros, Chioma Ebinama: Meet the American-Nigerian painter who exhibits in Athens, lifo.gr, 7 September 2020
Di Liscia, Valentina, Your Concise Guide to Armory Week 2020, hyperallergic.com, 2 March 2020
Ferguson, Maeri, On View at SVA in December and January: Forward-Thinking Art, Design and Storytelling, sva.edu, 15 December 2020
Hernandez, Jasmin, In Conversation with Chioma Ebinama: Dreamy Watercolors that Reinforce Love After the Pain, May 2020
Hilmer, Georgia, Chioma Ebinama, georgiahilmer.com, 2 March 2020
Jansen, Charlotte, These Are the Artists You Need On Your Radar Right Now, elephant.art, 4 September 2020
Perez, Rodrigo, ‘Visions’ Gives SVA’s Class Of 2020 A Chance To Shine, sva.edu, 18 November 2020
S. Shehmir, Ayesha, A Virtual Affair, Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, p. 40, 1 November 2020
Tsitsopoulos, Stefanos, Visually, autumn 2020: What the wind brings, athensvoice.gr, 16 September 2020
Durand, Marion, Talking In Pictures, brightthemag.com, 24 July 2019
O’Brien, Edna, Ebinama, Chioma illus., Girl, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 18 September 2019
Selvin, Claire, In Seventh Edition, Spring/Break, Strange as Ever, Responds to World's Tense Cultural Climate, ARTNews.com, 6 March 2018
Harriman, Kat, Snowed Under: Armory Week 2018, Ocula, 16 March 2018
Gomez, Lauren Pellarano, Spring Break Forever: In conversation with Chioma Ebinama, Boston Art Review, Issue 1, 2018
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Whitney Museum of American Art
ILHAM Foundation, Kuala Kumpur, Malasiya
Pérez Art Museum Miami Collection, Miami, FL, USA
Tschabalala Self, New York, NY, USA
Take Two Interactive, New York, NY, USA
Tiroche DeLeon Collection, Tel Aviv, Israel
Wellington Management Collection, Boston, MA, USA