Uzoma Chidumaga Orji is a visual artist and creative technologist from Nigeria. His work is representative of his heritage and focuses heavily on identity as an Igbo Nigerian.
As a technologist he seeks to design engaging human-centred digital experiences that bring the arts and tech into the same conversation.
As an artist he observes and then creates representations of society and of history; visual metaphors that explain his millennial Igbo Nigerian cultural context and the cultural environment he hopes to one day live in.
The essence of his practice is indeed identity, particularly as pertains to self, culture, and nationality. His work uses his notions of his identity as a point of exit to interrogate who we are, how we have come to be and who we aspire to become.
![5 Black men walking single file along a pavement with two other Black men watching across the road](https://i1.wp.com/cultrface.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/bia-nu-le.jpg?ssl=1)
![A Black man standing in front of a group of Black men](https://i2.wp.com/cultrface.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Inhibitions1.jpg?ssl=1)
![A Black man addressing a group of Black man with what looks like a Bible](https://i1.wp.com/cultrface.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/man_or_god_3.jpg?ssl=1)
![](https://i0.wp.com/cultrface.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/NYSC.jpg?ssl=1)
![A Black man standing in a body of water ready to be baptised (or baptise someone)](https://i0.wp.com/cultrface.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Screen_Shot_2019-10-11_at_14.17.42.png?ssl=1)
![Two Black women in various poses](https://i2.wp.com/cultrface.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Umunwanyike.jpeg?ssl=1)
He also works as a web dev which seems like the perfect bridge between both media.
Check out his website and follow him on Instagram.