ABOUT
Aisha Olamide Seriki (b1998) is a Nigerian multi-disciplinary artist in London, specialising in fine art photography and sculpture. Seriki works from a canon of personal histories which splice contemporary realities. Her practice is holistic and embodied, subverting formal photographic traditions. Cosmological systems such as the Yoruba Spiritual Tradition have informed the multisensory approach Seriki has to documentation, communication and creation. Through optics and trickery, she challenges the rigid imagination of self, creating space in the archive for a wider definition.
Aisha was awarded the Sanctuary Scholarship in 2017 and graduated with a first-class honours degree in Global Liberal Arts from SOAS University of London in 2020. In 2021, she was a finalist for the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize. In 2023, she was awarded the Frank Bowling Scholarship and completed the Photography MA programme at the Royal College of Art, where she is now undertaking her MFA in Fine Arts and Humanities. Aisha’s project Orí Inú received the RCA’s New Photography Prize, the SW Darkroom Award and the inaugural JM Finn Graduate Artist Award (2023). In May 2024, Aisha won the V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography and was shortlisted for the Photo London x Nikon Emerging Photographer Award.
AWARDS
V&A Parasol Prize for Women in Photography, 2024
Photo London x Nikon People's Choice Award
JM Finn Studio Award, 2023
SW Darkrooms Award, 2023
New Photography Prize, 2023
Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2021, Finalist
ONGOING SOLO SHOW
Orí Inú
DoyleWham Gallery, Shoreditch, May 23rd - July 27th 2024
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
RCA 2024 Degree Show
RCA Battersea, London, June 2024
V&A Parasol Prize for Women in Photography 2024
Peckham24, Copeland Gallery, London, May 2024
Photo London
DoyleWham, Somerset House, London, May 2024
Inverted Negatives
Notting Hill Arts Club, London, March 2024
The Graduate Art Show
Vanner Gallery, Salisbury, January 2024
Leam PhotoFest 2023
PHOTIQ, Leamington Spa, October 2023
ARC Salon
Arc Painswick, Painswick, October UK
Soulful Expressions
Cambridge University, Cambridge, October 2023
Recent Graduates Exhibition
Affordable Art Fair, London, October 2023
CSR ART Programme
Travers Smith, London UK, September 2023
Gatehouse ART Programme
Gatehouse Chambers, London, September 2023
RCA 2023 Degree show
Royal College of Art, London, June 2023
Our Lives
30 Fenchurch Street, London, June 2023
Becoming British
Bloc Projects, Sheffield, June 2022
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize
Cromwell Place, London, November 2021
No Shoes on My Carpet
Kanaiza, Online, July 2020
BLACK ART MATTERS
Maag Halle, Switzerland, July 2020
Night School Graduation
NikeLab, London, November 2019
The Creative Women’s Showcase
SOAS University, London, August 2019
FOR MY NEGUS AND NIGIST
Goldsmiths University, London, December 2018
BLACKONBLACK
The Waiting Room, London, July 2018
TALKS AND WORKSHOPS
‘What’s Your Solution’, Cambridge School, London, February - March 2024
IWD Artist Talk, Cooley LLP, London, March 2024
The Art of Process, Cooley LLP, London, October 2024
Arts as A Means For Development Panel, London Development Symposium, Online 2023
Artist Talk, Renaissance Foundation, Online, 2023
Artiq Annual Launch, Fidelio Cafe, Clerkenwell, 2023
Becoming British Panel, Bloc Projects, London, 2022
History of Photography in Africa, SOAS University, London 2021
Self as home, Museum of the Home, London, 2021
PUBLISHED ARTICLES
June 2024
Embodied Creative Practice as a method for cultural recovery.