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.
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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

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 Plac...