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                    Ekene Emeka Maduka, Fabienne Levy, Lausanne 2023. Image by Neige Sanchez
Ekene Emeka Maduka, Fabienne Levy, Lausanne 2023. Image by Neige Sanchez


Ekene Emeka-Maduka is a Nigerian artist based in Winnipeg close to a decade now. Her evolving interdisciplinary practice includes paintings, sculpture, film, and community-based work. These instantiations of her practice generate from emotional, and psychological states related to splintered identity indicative of migrant experiences like hers. Although Maduka’s work stems from a conflation of her own fragmentary memories, personal events, or experiences, they are always interlinked to the larger historical, cultural, and social contexts they emerge from.

She received her BFA Hons. from University of Manitoba. Her work has been exhibited and screened locally and globally. In 2023, Maduka was one of five artists selected from North America to fabricate a public art piece at the STAGES Biennia by Plug-In ICA. For her project, Nri* for thought: Languages of Love Personified, she manufactured a ten feet tall geodesic dome. This all-encompassing project included workshops for newcomer immigrants and Indigenous youth, a bursary, and a functioning community garden housed in the dome.
Maduka has gallery representation with Fabienne Levy Gallery, Switzerland. One of her works is also housed in the permanent collection of The Museum of Africa Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL). In 2024, she was awarded the Royal Bank of Canada ON THE RISE Award presented by the Winnipeg Arts Council. This award recognizes the demonstrated promise of an emerging, professional Winnipeg artist in any discipline. Maduka also participated in “Self-Addressed”, a landmark exhibition at Jeffrey Deitch Los Angeles, curated by artist, Kehinde Wiley. In 2017, she was awarded an artist start up grant by Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys’ Dean Collection. Maduka’s first solo debut was at 1-54 London where her work was selected by Christie’s Auction house for an extension of the art fair.




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