andrew esiebo
andrew esiebo
lagos, lagos, Nigeria
About andrew esiebo
Born in Lagos, Nigeria. Andrew Esiebo is a visual storyteller exploring themes such as sexuality, gender politics, football, popular culture, migration, religion and spirituality. He is a winner of the 2011 Musee du Quai Branly Artistic creation prize. Andrew has been awarded a number of artistic residencies including the Cultures France's Visa Pour Creation, Paris, Africa Beyond programme, Gasworks, London, Gyeonggi Creation Center in South Korea, and Bag factory Art residency Johannesburg, South Africa. His work has been exhibited at the Sao Paulo biennial in Brazil, Biennale Cuvee in Linz-Austria, Photo Quai biennials in Paris-France, Dakart Biennale-Senegal, Guangzhou Triennial in Beijing-China, the Chobi Mela V Photo Festival in Bangladesh, Havanna Biennial in Havanna-Cuba, Noorderlitch Photo Festival in Netherlands, National Football Museum in Manchester-England, African Photography Encounters in Bamako-Mali, and the Lagos Photo Festival among others. He works are in several private and public art collections. He has given several lectures and talks on photography and is one of the facilitators at Nlele Institut- a Lagos based learning space and an experimental workstation a grooming ground for photographers. He is based in Nigeria from where he works around the world.
Education:
2010
Road to Twenty Ten-multimedia workshops, World Press Photo Foundation Netherlands
in Zambia
2009
Road to Twenty Ten Photographic workshop, World Press Photo Foundation the Netherlands
in Ghana.
Noor | Nikon Master Class, Lagos, Nigeria
Video art workshop, Centre of Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria
2008
Pride Portrait photography workshop, Goethe-Institut, Lagos, Nigeria
One minute Video art workshop, Center of Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria
2007
The photographic workshop, Alliance Francaise/French Embassy Accra, Ghana
Euroclass Masterclass Noorderlicht Photography, Groningen, Netherlands
2006
Football Worlds Photographic workshop, Goethe- Institut, Lagos, Nigeria
2005
Diploma in Journalism, International Institute of Journalism, Ibadan, Nigeria
Exhibitions:
Solo Exhibition
2018
Goals Diggers, Rele Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria
2016
Nigeria Now, The Loft, Washington DC, USA
2014
Pride: Photographs of West African Barbershops, Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK
Soccer World, Arc en Rêve Bordeaux, France
2012
Na Go. Aesthetics of African Charismatic Power, Padova, Italy
2008
Et si la rue était à l’origine du Football, Paris, France
For the love of it, Spanish Embassy, Abuja, Nigeria
Group Exhibition (selection)
2018
Civilization, The Way We Live Now, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea.
We Feed the World exhibition, Bargehouse Gallery, London, UK
2017
Recent Histories, Walther Collection Museum, Ulm, Germany
Who Shot Sports: A Photographic History, 1843 to the Present, Tampa
Art Museum, USA
Who Shot Sports: A Photographic History, 1843 to the Present, Olympic Museum, Lausanne Switzerland
Freestyles, Wired Magazine, Tokyo, Japan
Accessibility: Beyond Physical Environments, Thoughts Pyramid Art Centre, Abuja, Nigeria
2016
DongGang International Photo Festival, DongGang Photo Museum, DongGang, South Korea
Close to Home: New Photography from Africa, The Walther Collection space, New York, USA
Lagos: Living and Working, Heritage Place, Lagos, Nigeria
Who Shot Sports, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
Before, Before & Now, Now, MIRA FORUM, Portugal
Les Recontres D’Arles 2016, Arles, France
London Photo Fair, Tiwani Contemporary Booth, London, UK
Paris Photo Fair, The Walther Collection Booth, Paris
2015
The Problem of God, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Museum, Dusseldorf, Germany
Open Range, Goethe Institut, Lagos, Nigeria
Fantastic, Michaelis Galleries, University of Cape Town, South Africa
The View From Here, Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK
Visibles-Invisibles, Fondation Blachère, Apt, France
2014
Whose Centenary? Art Project, Benin City, Nigeria
Doing Hair, Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa
Dakart Biennale, Dakar, Senegal
Rwanda in Photographs: Death Then, Life Now, Somerset House, London, UK
Personal Liberties, Raw Material Company, Dakar, Senegal
2013
Before: Nigeria, Musee du Quai Branly, Paris, France
Biennale Cuvee, Linz, Austria
Made in China, Institut Francias Mauritania, Nouakchott, Mauritania
2012
Lagos Live Festival, Freedom Park, Lagos, Nigeria
The Progress of Love, Centre of Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria
Havana Biennale, Havana, Cuba
Moving into Space, National Football Museum, Manchester, United Kingdom
The World in London, The Photographers Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2011
Photoqaui Biennale, Musee du Quai Branly, Paris, France
Queer Africa, South London Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Papa Migration, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Beyond Football, Goethe Institut, Lagos, Nigeria and Savvay Center, Berlin, Germany
Hybrid Lives, Stephen Lawrence gallery, London, United Kingdom
Nigerians Behind the Lens, Bonham, London, United kingdom
2010
Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Twenty Ten on the Road, Cape Town, South Africa
On top of the roof projection, Addis Foto Festival, Ethiopia
Sharon Stone in Abuja, Location One Gallery, New York, United State of America
Lagos Photo festival, Lagos, Nigeria
Offline FV Film and Video Exhibition, Texas, USA
Africa See you, see me, Lisbon, Portugal
Black Motion, S.A.L.E, Venice, Italy
African Photography encounters, touring Italy, Benin Republic and South Africa
2009
African Photography Encounters Biennale, Bamako, Mali
Havana, Biennale, Havana, Cuba
Pride Photographic Exhibition, Goethe Institut, Lagos, Nigeria
Chobi Mela V Photography Festival, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2008
3rd Guangzhou Triennial, "Africa Cinema" Screenings, Beijing China
Artist Open Studio, Gasworks, London, United Kingdom
Redeye Projection 08, Manchester, United Kingdom
2007
2 X 2 d’Africultures /Afriphotos, Bamako, Mali
Noorderlicht Photography festival, Groningen, Netherlands
Hanging Around, Dortmund, Germany
Ghana Memories, Accra, Ghana
Lagos Nocturnal Vibration, Goethe Institut, Lagos, Nigeria
2006
Football Worlds, Goethe Institut, Lagos, Nigeria
Nouvelles Africaines, Paris, France