(b. 1986, Lagos, Nigeria)
EDUCATION
2019 Master of Art (Painting Program) - Royal College of Art, London UK
2009 Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) - Long Island University (C.W post campus), NY
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Maryland Art Place presents Osaretin Ugiagbe, Hotel Indigo Baltimore, MD
2023 A View From Amman, SLAG&RX, New York, NY
2022 Duo Show with Hiva Alizadeh, The Flat/Sarahcrown booth, UNTITLED Art, Miami Beach, FL
2021 Untitled Art fair Miami Beach - Art Basel. Represented by Sarah Crown NY / The Flat Massimo Carrasi IT
2017 Un-belonging - Bronx Documentary Center, Bronx, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Nel Grembo Materno, Boccanera Gallery curated by Giorgia Lucchi Boccanera. Trento, IT
Art Verona, Represented by Sarah Crown, Verona, IT
Dallas ArtFair, represented by Sarah Crown, Dallas, TX
2021 WITHIN, curated by Sarah Crown, The Yard – Columbus Circle, New York, NY
2020 FBA futures, Mall Galleries, London, UK
2019 Travers Smith CSR program, London, UK
Royal College of Art Painting Degree Show, London, UK
Painting from the Other Side, curated by Shannon Forrester (Ph.D.) – Dyson Gallery, London, UK
2018 Taohuatan, Southern Anhui, CN
De Cacaofabriek - A New York State of Mind - Stories from the Unusual Suspects, Helmond, NL
Africa and African Identity Through the Eyes of African Artists, Yale's African Initiative, New Haven, CT
RCA WIP Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2016 Jerome Avenue Workers, Bronx Photo League, Brooklyn, NY
The Bronx Speaks: Our Home - Bronx Art Space, Bronx, NY
Bronx: Africa co-curated by LeRonn Brooks, Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
2015 Intersecting Imaginaries - No Longer Empty, Bronx Photo League - Concourse Plaza Hotel, Bronx, NY
Jerome Avenue Workers - Bronx Photo League - Vasquez Muffler, Bronx, NY
Fragments of a Chronology , Tracie Hervy collaboration with Osaretin Ugiagbe, Video
Bronx Museum of the Arts (Bronx Aim Program), Bronx, NY
2014 Five from 150 - Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
Bronx X Bronx - Bronx Documentary Center, Bronx, NY
2011 Brooklyn Art Space: 50/50, Brooklyn, NY
PUBLICATIONS
Exit #68 Street Photography Editorial: Productions of Art and Thought, S.L. (November 2017)
Jerome Ave (Bronx Photo League) 136 pages 93 black-and-white images Hardcover, linen-bound.
Columbia Journal Review March/April 2015 Vol. 54 Issue 1, p6-9. 3p. 1 Color Photograph.
Literature & fiction book titled: Stillborn by Diekoye Oyeyinka. Cover by Osaretin Ugiagbe. Published by East African Educational Publishers (July 17, 2014)
PROJECTS
Travers Smith CSR program, London U.K (2019)
Duro Olowu Picks the Best Street Style from Frieze London and 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair for American Vogue
A cameo for "Young Documentarians” by Gareth Smith for the New York Times, (2017)
Five Journal, (March 2017)
Code Unknown collaboration with Tracie Hervy Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY
SELECTED PRESS/REVIEWS
The Brooklyn Rail: Osaretin Ugiagbe: A View From Amman (2023)
Artisti, Galleristi, Art Advisors: L’Italia A Art Basel Miami (2021).
Elephant Art: The London MFA Shows: Art in a World on the Edge of Change (2019).
Hostos Community College: 10 Questions with Osaretin Ugiagbe (2019).
Financial Times: Snapshot; Unbelonging by Osaretin Ugiagbe (2017).
New York Times: Of the Bronx and of Nigeria (2017).
PDN Online: A Split View of New York and Lagos (2017).
Okay Africa: From Lagos to the Bronx, Photographer Osaretin Ugiagbe Documents the In-Between (2017).
Africa is a Country: The World of Photographer Osaretin Ugiagbe (2017).
FOX 5: Photographer Osaretin Ugiagbe’s Exhibit (2017).
Exit-Express: Unbelonging de Osaretin Ugiagbe (2017).
Mott Haven Herald: Debut Exhibit Shows an Artist with a Foot in Two Worlds (2017).
Bronxnet: Artist Talk Osaretin Ugiagbe (2017).
CBS: The Best of NY’s PopUp Photo Festival (2016).
The Village Voice: The Most Striking Images to See at Photoville (2016).
Photoville: The Battle of the Borough (2016).
The Riverdale Press: In the Bronx Home is Where the Art is (2016).
New York Daily News: Longwood Arts Projects Celebrates Africa (2015).
New York Times: Bracing for Gentrification (2016).
Columbia Journal Review: Letters to the Editors (2015).
Columbia Journal Review: Drawing Inspiration from the South Bronx (2015).
AWARDS
2019- 2020 Travers Smith CSR Program Winner, London, UK
PUBLIC ACQUISITION
2017 Girl in White Lace (Lagos, Nigeria) Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
RESIDENCE
2018 Tao Hua Tan, International Spring Artist Retreat and Painting Residence Xuancheng town, Jungian County in southern Anhui, CN
ARTIST TALK/LECTURE
2019 The Ruskin School of Art – University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
2017 Un-belonging: Moderated by Stephanie Baptist, Bronx Documentary Center, Bronx, NY