Chukwudumebi Gabriel's profile

            Chukwudumebi Gabriel Amadi-Emina is a Nigerian-American contemporary Photographic and video artist, currently residing in the Baltimore area, Maryland. Gabriel got his BFA in Photography and graphic design from Armstrong State University in Savannah, GA. Andgot his MFA in photographic and electronic media from the Maryland Institute College of Art.
            Gabriel’s artistic journey began when he migrated to the United States in 2009 at the ageof 15. While navigating different spaces and institutions, observing a variety of interactions, and participating in them. he started to notice the disparities in realities between the life I lived in Nigeria and his new life in the U.S.             From race, to history, to even identity. Gabriel has able to expand on his perspective onwhat it means to be black as an American and an African through his time in the U.S. And has been able to to dive into the intricacies of racism, whether it has been institutionalized by colonialism or slavery and how that’s effected synergy of blackness in the world and the perspectives and lessons he has encountered through his practice.

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