Akwaeke Emezi, b. 1987 Umuahia, Nigeria Brooklyn, NY
AWARDS
2017 Astraea Foundation Global Arts Fund, The Unblinding
2014 BlackStar Film Festival, Best Short Experimental, Ududeagu
FILMS
2020 ''I Am Not Clean''
2017 Take The Mark
2017 ''This World Has Killed Me''
2016 9999 Black Jabs
2016 Break Fruit
2014 Ududeagu
2014 Hey Celestial
2014 Apotheosis
2014 Waiting All Night
2013 Blesi
EXHIBITIONS
2015 Design is the Personality of the Idea, Lagos, Nigeria (Group Exhibition)
2015 ALULU/ASUSU UDUDEAGU, Spark Contemporary Art Space, Syracuse, USA
SELECT FESTIVALS + SCREENINGS + PRESENTATIONS
2021 Frieze Talks: Akwaeke Emezi & ruby onyinyechi amanze, Frieze New York
2020 Cinetracts '20, Wexner Center For The Arts
2018 The Unblinding with Akwaeke Emezi and Allison Janae Hamilton, Gavin Browne's enterprise, NYC
2017 New York African Film Festival, Film Society Lincoln Center, NYC
2016 Transforming Provocations-Regime Change, Flaherty NYC
2015 Transoceanic Visual Exchange (Barbados + Lagos + New Zealand) • 50Golborne presents AFRO FUTURES IN MOTION with the Portobello Film Festival, London • NOW Cinema presents Films Supporting Home Affairs, London • Analogue Eye-Mobile Drive-in Cinema, Vienna • The New Cross & Deptford Free Film Festival, London • Fribourg International Film Festival, Switzerland
2014 The Boda Boda Lounge Project (Addis + Bamako + Bulawayo + Cairo + Harare + Johannesburg + Kampala + Kinshasa + Luanda + Lubumbashi + Lagos + Santiago) • Film Africa, London • Lights, Camera, Africa!!! Film Festival, Lagos • BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia • African Street Style Festival, London