Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi

 IkechukwuC. Onyewuenyi

Ikechukwu C. Onyewuenyi

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Biography

University of Pittsburgh - Psychology

Curatorial Assistant at Hammer Museum
Ikechukwu Casmir
Onyewuenyi
Los Angeles, California
Ikechukwu Casmir Onyewuenyi is a Nigerian Australian curator and writer based in Los Angeles, with research interests that dovetail across performance and performativity in new (digital) media, epistemology of the photographic image, and African aesthetics in the diaspora. He is a curatorial assistant at Hammer Museum, UCLA. Recent highlights include co-organizing M. Lamar’s "The Demon Rising" (2016) at The Kitchen, Aya Rodriguez-Izumi’s "On Air" (2016) at AC Institute, and the one-night performance exhibition, "Sexual Fragments Absent" (2017) at famed sex club Paddles. Onyewuenyi has prior curatorial experience at Performa, The Kitchen, BRIC, and African Artist’s Foundation, Lagos, among others. He maintains an ongoing writing practice, having profiled the likes of Maurizio Cattelan, Awol Erizku, Simone Forti, Dana Michels, Jo Ratcliffe, and Francis Upritchard for publications such as Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Media Culture, ARTS.BLACK, BLOUIN ARTINFO, Carla, and Performa Magazine, among others. He has an MA in Curatorial Practice from the School of Visual Arts, New York and an MS in Clinical/Biological Health Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh.


Experience

    Education

    • Sydney Technical High School

      High School



    • Palo Alto Senior High School

      High School



    • University of Pittsburgh

      Master of Science (M.S.)

      Clinical Health Psychology
      Master's Thesis: "Does Functional Variation in Cognitive Control Systems of the Brain Link Reappraisal to the Metabolic Syndrome?" Advisor: Peter J. Gianaros, PhD Committee: Stephen B. Manuck, PhD; Kirk E. Erickson, PhD

    • K. Leroy Irvis Fellowship


      The K. Leroy Irvis Fellowship is a multi-year fellowship designed to enhance the diversity of the University of Pittsburgh's graduate student population and eventually the professorate. Fellows receive a stipend and tuition coverage in efforts to recruit new graduate students to the University of Pittsburgh.

    • Jennie and Max Bassell Scholarship Award


      The Jennie and Max Bassell Scholarship Award is given annually by the Clinical Psychology Program to clinical students for first author publications accepted in the prior academic year. Awarded for the publication entitled, "Basal ganglia morphology links the metabolic syndrome and depressive symptoms."

    • School of Visual Arts

      Master of Arts (M.A.)

      Curatorial Practice

    • Howard University

      Bachelor of Science (B.S.)

      Psychology, Human Development
      Honors Thesis: "Blood Pressure and Frontal-Executive Cognitive Function: The Examination of a Linear Versus Nonlinear Relationship" Advisor: Jules P. Harrell, PhD

    • Phi Beta Kappa



    Publications

    • That Wild Inside of Dana Michel's "Mercurial George"​

      American Realness: READING 2017

    • That Wild Inside of Dana Michel's "Mercurial George"​

      American Realness: READING 2017

    • Uncluttering The Imaginary In Francis Upritchard’s “African” Sculptures

      ARTS.BLACK

    • That Wild Inside of Dana Michel's "Mercurial George"​

      American Realness: READING 2017

    • Uncluttering The Imaginary In Francis Upritchard’s “African” Sculptures

      ARTS.BLACK

    • The Limits of Animality

      Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles

    • That Wild Inside of Dana Michel's "Mercurial George"​

      American Realness: READING 2017

    • Uncluttering The Imaginary In Francis Upritchard’s “African” Sculptures

      ARTS.BLACK

    • The Limits of Animality

      Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles

    • Working The Margins

      HYCIDE Magazine

    • That Wild Inside of Dana Michel's "Mercurial George"​

      American Realness: READING 2017

    • Uncluttering The Imaginary In Francis Upritchard’s “African” Sculptures

      ARTS.BLACK

    • The Limits of Animality

      Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles

    • Working The Margins

      HYCIDE Magazine

    • Between Icon, Image, and Performance: Who Performed in Maurizio Cattelan’s Manifesta Showing?

      BLOUIN ARTINFO

    • That Wild Inside of Dana Michel's "Mercurial George"​

      American Realness: READING 2017

    • Uncluttering The Imaginary In Francis Upritchard’s “African” Sculptures

      ARTS.BLACK

    • The Limits of Animality

      Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles

    • Working The Margins

      HYCIDE Magazine

    • Between Icon, Image, and Performance: Who Performed in Maurizio Cattelan’s Manifesta Showing?

      BLOUIN ARTINFO

    • Basal ganglia morphology links the metabolic syndrome and depressive symptoms

      Physiology & Behavior

    • That Wild Inside of Dana Michel's "Mercurial George"​

      American Realness: READING 2017

    • Uncluttering The Imaginary In Francis Upritchard’s “African” Sculptures

      ARTS.BLACK

    • The Limits of Animality

      Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles

    • Working The Margins

      HYCIDE Magazine

    • Between Icon, Image, and Performance: Who Performed in Maurizio Cattelan’s Manifesta Showing?

      BLOUIN ARTINFO

    • Basal ganglia morphology links the metabolic syndrome and depressive symptoms

      Physiology & Behavior

    • Between Heaven and Here

      BRIC Arts Media House

      Catalogue essay for BRIC exhibition, "Look Up Here, I'm in Heaven"

    • That Wild Inside of Dana Michel's "Mercurial George"​

      American Realness: READING 2017

    • Uncluttering The Imaginary In Francis Upritchard’s “African” Sculptures

      ARTS.BLACK

    • The Limits of Animality

      Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles

    • Working The Margins

      HYCIDE Magazine

    • Between Icon, Image, and Performance: Who Performed in Maurizio Cattelan’s Manifesta Showing?

      BLOUIN ARTINFO

    • Basal ganglia morphology links the metabolic syndrome and depressive symptoms

      Physiology & Behavior

    • Between Heaven and Here

      BRIC Arts Media House

      Catalogue essay for BRIC exhibition, "Look Up Here, I'm in Heaven"

    • Here, There and Everywhere: Siera Hyte's Adventures in the Embodied

      ArtSlant

    • That Wild Inside of Dana Michel's "Mercurial George"​

      American Realness: READING 2017

    • Uncluttering The Imaginary In Francis Upritchard’s “African” Sculptures

      ARTS.BLACK

    • The Limits of Animality

      Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles

    • Working The Margins

      HYCIDE Magazine

    • Between Icon, Image, and Performance: Who Performed in Maurizio Cattelan’s Manifesta Showing?

      BLOUIN ARTINFO

    • Basal ganglia morphology links the metabolic syndrome and depressive symptoms

      Physiology & Behavior

    • Between Heaven and Here

      BRIC Arts Media House

      Catalogue essay for BRIC exhibition, "Look Up Here, I'm in Heaven"

    • Here, There and Everywhere: Siera Hyte's Adventures in the Embodied

      ArtSlant

    • Waves Washing Ashore: A.I.R. Gallery Considers The State of Feminism Through The Visual

      ARTS.BLACK

    • That Wild Inside of Dana Michel's "Mercurial George"​

      American Realness: READING 2017

    • Uncluttering The Imaginary In Francis Upritchard’s “African” Sculptures

      ARTS.BLACK

    • The Limits of Animality

      Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles

    • Working The Margins

      HYCIDE Magazine

    • Between Icon, Image, and Performance: Who Performed in Maurizio Cattelan’s Manifesta Showing?

      BLOUIN ARTINFO

    • Basal ganglia morphology links the metabolic syndrome and depressive symptoms

      Physiology & Behavior

    • Between Heaven and Here

      BRIC Arts Media House

      Catalogue essay for BRIC exhibition, "Look Up Here, I'm in Heaven"

    • Here, There and Everywhere: Siera Hyte's Adventures in the Embodied

      ArtSlant

    • Waves Washing Ashore: A.I.R. Gallery Considers The State of Feminism Through The Visual

      ARTS.BLACK

    • Cerebral blood flow links insulin resistance and baroreflex sensitivity

      PLoS One

    • That Wild Inside of Dana Michel's "Mercurial George"​

      American Realness: READING 2017

    • Uncluttering The Imaginary In Francis Upritchard’s “African” Sculptures

      ARTS.BLACK

    • The Limits of Animality

      Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles

    • Working The Margins

      HYCIDE Magazine

    • Between Icon, Image, and Performance: Who Performed in Maurizio Cattelan’s Manifesta Showing?

      BLOUIN ARTINFO

    • Basal ganglia morphology links the metabolic syndrome and depressive symptoms

      Physiology & Behavior

    • Between Heaven and Here

      BRIC Arts Media House

      Catalogue essay for BRIC exhibition, "Look Up Here, I'm in Heaven"

    • Here, There and Everywhere: Siera Hyte's Adventures in the Embodied

      ArtSlant

    • Waves Washing Ashore: A.I.R. Gallery Considers The State of Feminism Through The Visual

      ARTS.BLACK

    • Cerebral blood flow links insulin resistance and baroreflex sensitivity

      PLoS One

    • Seen and Unseen: The (In)visible Entanglement of Femininity and Labor

      Art in Odd Places

    • That Wild Inside of Dana Michel's "Mercurial George"​

      American Realness: READING 2017

    • Uncluttering The Imaginary In Francis Upritchard’s “African” Sculptures

      ARTS.BLACK

    • The Limits of Animality

      Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles

    • Working The Margins

      HYCIDE Magazine

    • Between Icon, Image, and Performance: Who Performed in Maurizio Cattelan’s Manifesta Showing?

      BLOUIN ARTINFO

    • Basal ganglia morphology links the metabolic syndrome and depressive symptoms

      Physiology & Behavior

    • Between Heaven and Here

      BRIC Arts Media House

      Catalogue essay for BRIC exhibition, "Look Up Here, I'm in Heaven"

    • Here, There and Everywhere: Siera Hyte's Adventures in the Embodied

      ArtSlant

    • Waves Washing Ashore: A.I.R. Gallery Considers The State of Feminism Through The Visual

      ARTS.BLACK

    • Cerebral blood flow links insulin resistance and baroreflex sensitivity

      PLoS One

    • Seen and Unseen: The (In)visible Entanglement of Femininity and Labor

      Art in Odd Places

    • Medicine Man: I'll Take Care of You

      Art Base Africa

    • That Wild Inside of Dana Michel's "Mercurial George"​

      American Realness: READING 2017

    • Uncluttering The Imaginary In Francis Upritchard’s “African” Sculptures

      ARTS.BLACK

    • The Limits of Animality

      Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles

    • Working The Margins

      HYCIDE Magazine

    • Between Icon, Image, and Performance: Who Performed in Maurizio Cattelan’s Manifesta Showing?

      BLOUIN ARTINFO

    • Basal ganglia morphology links the metabolic syndrome and depressive symptoms

      Physiology & Behavior

    • Between Heaven and Here

      BRIC Arts Media House

      Catalogue essay for BRIC exhibition, "Look Up Here, I'm in Heaven"

    • Here, There and Everywhere: Siera Hyte's Adventures in the Embodied

      ArtSlant

    • Waves Washing Ashore: A.I.R. Gallery Considers The State of Feminism Through The Visual

      ARTS.BLACK

    • Cerebral blood flow links insulin resistance and baroreflex sensitivity

      PLoS One

    • Seen and Unseen: The (In)visible Entanglement of Femininity and Labor

      Art in Odd Places

    • Medicine Man: I'll Take Care of You

      Art Base Africa

    • Brain systems for baroreflex suppression during stress in humans

      Human Brain Mapping

    • That Wild Inside of Dana Michel's "Mercurial George"​

      American Realness: READING 2017

    • Uncluttering The Imaginary In Francis Upritchard’s “African” Sculptures

      ARTS.BLACK

    • The Limits of Animality

      Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles

    • Working The Margins

      HYCIDE Magazine

    • Between Icon, Image, and Performance: Who Performed in Maurizio Cattelan’s Manifesta Showing?

      BLOUIN ARTINFO

    • Basal ganglia morphology links the metabolic syndrome and depressive symptoms

      Physiology & Behavior

    • Between Heaven and Here

      BRIC Arts Media House

      Catalogue essay for BRIC exhibition, "Look Up Here, I'm in Heaven"

    • Here, There and Everywhere: Siera Hyte's Adventures in the Embodied

      ArtSlant

    • Waves Washing Ashore: A.I.R. Gallery Considers The State of Feminism Through The Visual

      ARTS.BLACK

    • Cerebral blood flow links insulin resistance and baroreflex sensitivity

      PLoS One

    • Seen and Unseen: The (In)visible Entanglement of Femininity and Labor

      Art in Odd Places

    • Medicine Man: I'll Take Care of You

      Art Base Africa

    • Brain systems for baroreflex suppression during stress in humans

      Human Brain Mapping

    • Cannabinoid modulation of amygdala reactivity to social signals of threat in humans

      Journal of Neuroscience

    • That Wild Inside of Dana Michel's "Mercurial George"​

      American Realness: READING 2017

    • Uncluttering The Imaginary In Francis Upritchard’s “African” Sculptures

      ARTS.BLACK

    • The Limits of Animality

      Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles

    • Working The Margins

      HYCIDE Magazine

    • Between Icon, Image, and Performance: Who Performed in Maurizio Cattelan’s Manifesta Showing?

      BLOUIN ARTINFO

    • Basal ganglia morphology links the metabolic syndrome and depressive symptoms

      Physiology & Behavior

    • Between Heaven and Here

      BRIC Arts Media House

      Catalogue essay for BRIC exhibition, "Look Up Here, I'm in Heaven"

    • Here, There and Everywhere: Siera Hyte's Adventures in the Embodied

      ArtSlant

    • Waves Washing Ashore: A.I.R. Gallery Considers The State of Feminism Through The Visual

      ARTS.BLACK

    • Cerebral blood flow links insulin resistance and baroreflex sensitivity

      PLoS One

    • Seen and Unseen: The (In)visible Entanglement of Femininity and Labor

      Art in Odd Places

    • Medicine Man: I'll Take Care of You

      Art Base Africa

    • Brain systems for baroreflex suppression during stress in humans

      Human Brain Mapping

    • Cannabinoid modulation of amygdala reactivity to social signals of threat in humans

      Journal of Neuroscience

    • Where Do the Myths Lie?: Considering the Imaginary in Jo Ractliffes Landscapes of Conflict

      Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism

    • That Wild Inside of Dana Michel's "Mercurial George"​

      American Realness: READING 2017

    • Uncluttering The Imaginary In Francis Upritchard’s “African” Sculptures

      ARTS.BLACK

    • The Limits of Animality

      Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles

    • Working The Margins

      HYCIDE Magazine

    • Between Icon, Image, and Performance: Who Performed in Maurizio Cattelan’s Manifesta Showing?

      BLOUIN ARTINFO

    • Basal ganglia morphology links the metabolic syndrome and depressive symptoms

      Physiology & Behavior

    • Between Heaven and Here

      BRIC Arts Media House

      Catalogue essay for BRIC exhibition, "Look Up Here, I'm in Heaven"

    • Here, There and Everywhere: Siera Hyte's Adventures in the Embodied

      ArtSlant

    • Waves Washing Ashore: A.I.R. Gallery Considers The State of Feminism Through The Visual

      ARTS.BLACK

    • Cerebral blood flow links insulin resistance and baroreflex sensitivity

      PLoS One

    • Seen and Unseen: The (In)visible Entanglement of Femininity and Labor

      Art in Odd Places

    • Medicine Man: I'll Take Care of You

      Art Base Africa

    • Brain systems for baroreflex suppression during stress in humans

      Human Brain Mapping

    • Cannabinoid modulation of amygdala reactivity to social signals of threat in humans

      Journal of Neuroscience

    • Where Do the Myths Lie?: Considering the Imaginary in Jo Ractliffes Landscapes of Conflict

      Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism

    • The Gravitas of Time: Saskia Janssen & Ishu Han at ISCP

      ARTS.BLACK

    • That Wild Inside of Dana Michel's "Mercurial George"​

      American Realness: READING 2017

    • Uncluttering The Imaginary In Francis Upritchard’s “African” Sculptures

      ARTS.BLACK

    • The Limits of Animality

      Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles

    • Working The Margins

      HYCIDE Magazine

    • Between Icon, Image, and Performance: Who Performed in Maurizio Cattelan’s Manifesta Showing?

      BLOUIN ARTINFO

    • Basal ganglia morphology links the metabolic syndrome and depressive symptoms

      Physiology & Behavior

    • Between Heaven and Here

      BRIC Arts Media House

      Catalogue essay for BRIC exhibition, "Look Up Here, I'm in Heaven"

    • Here, There and Everywhere: Siera Hyte's Adventures in the Embodied

      ArtSlant

    • Waves Washing Ashore: A.I.R. Gallery Considers The State of Feminism Through The Visual

      ARTS.BLACK

    • Cerebral blood flow links insulin resistance and baroreflex sensitivity

      PLoS One

    • Seen and Unseen: The (In)visible Entanglement of Femininity and Labor

      Art in Odd Places

    • Medicine Man: I'll Take Care of You

      Art Base Africa

    • Brain systems for baroreflex suppression during stress in humans

      Human Brain Mapping

    • Cannabinoid modulation of amygdala reactivity to social signals of threat in humans

      Journal of Neuroscience

    • Where Do the Myths Lie?: Considering the Imaginary in Jo Ractliffes Landscapes of Conflict

      Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism

    • The Gravitas of Time: Saskia Janssen & Ishu Han at ISCP

      ARTS.BLACK

    • Awol Erizku at FLAG Art Foundation

      Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles

    • That Wild Inside of Dana Michel's "Mercurial George"​

      American Realness: READING 2017

    • Uncluttering The Imaginary In Francis Upritchard’s “African” Sculptures

      ARTS.BLACK

    • The Limits of Animality

      Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles

    • Working The Margins

      HYCIDE Magazine

    • Between Icon, Image, and Performance: Who Performed in Maurizio Cattelan’s Manifesta Showing?

      BLOUIN ARTINFO

    • Basal ganglia morphology links the metabolic syndrome and depressive symptoms

      Physiology & Behavior

    • Between Heaven and Here

      BRIC Arts Media House

      Catalogue essay for BRIC exhibition, "Look Up Here, I'm in Heaven"

    • Here, There and Everywhere: Siera Hyte's Adventures in the Embodied

      ArtSlant

    • Waves Washing Ashore: A.I.R. Gallery Considers The State of Feminism Through The Visual

      ARTS.BLACK

    • Cerebral blood flow links insulin resistance and baroreflex sensitivity

      PLoS One

    • Seen and Unseen: The (In)visible Entanglement of Femininity and Labor

      Art in Odd Places

    • Medicine Man: I'll Take Care of You

      Art Base Africa

    • Brain systems for baroreflex suppression during stress in humans

      Human Brain Mapping

    • Cannabinoid modulation of amygdala reactivity to social signals of threat in humans

      Journal of Neuroscience

    • Where Do the Myths Lie?: Considering the Imaginary in Jo Ractliffes Landscapes of Conflict

      Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism

    • The Gravitas of Time: Saskia Janssen & Ishu Han at ISCP

      ARTS.BLACK

    • Awol Erizku at FLAG Art Foundation

      Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles

    • The Return of the Hand: (Re)materializing the Everyday Object

      ArtSlant

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