Chidinma Nnoli (b. 1998 Enugu, Nigeria) is an artist working primarily with painting. Her practice contemplates the importance of a single subject’s embodied experience(s), often overlaying the past onto the present, referencing the self in conflict with abackground mostly saturated with religion and gendered obligations. By treating painting as a medium advocating empathy and agency simultaneously, Nnoli uses her practice as mapping space, the body, and a landscape that holds residual memories, where ideas of freedom and entrapment continuously overlap. Through a process that often employs texture, impasto, splatter, and erasure, at the core of her conceptual concern is storytelling using self-written poetry, and engaging the personal as political. Nnoli earned her BFA from the University of Benin, Nigeria and has gone on to participate in critical residencies and solo and group exhibitions internationally. She currently lives and works in Lagos