Vina Nweke

Vina Nweke is Nigerian multimedia artist working in performance, sculpture, sound, and textile. They hold a degree in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Williams College, and also pursued further training at Middlebury College French School. Recently, they completed a residency at Bunker Projects, and their pieces have also been featured in ANMLY and the Republic Journal. Their work has been exhibited in the Berkshire Art Association College Fellowship Show and the Williams College Library Thesis Exhibition. They are based in Pittsburgh and NYC, where they are developing new works integrating sculpture and live performance, continuing to explore themes of home, belonging, and being through mediums such as clay, metal, fabric, and yarn— complemented with original musical compositions. Their work is informed by troubling those sticky boundaries of being often animated, and therefore enervated, through the blackened feminized body. They use tactile materials and immersive performances towards the creation of alternative modes of embodiments for this plasticized body. Currently, they are preparing for their solo debut, expanding on themes at the intersection of materiality and becoming.