Biography

Chidinma Nnorom is a Visual Artist, based in Lagos State, Nigeria. She holds a Higher National Diploma in Graphics Design from Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, Nigeria, in 2009.
Chidinma started photography as a student when she participated in the “Paris-Lagos” Photo exchange project, which brought together students from the Fine Art School of Paris and a selected counterpart from the Yaba College of Arts of which she was one of. Her works relates with issues dealing with the everyday life of people- politics, culture, colours, symbols, and even to the most insignificant things. She plays around with the non-figurative in a bid to approach humanity indirectly through objects which have undergone human contacts and displacement.
In 2010, she was invited to participate in the Invisible Borders Trans-African project where she travelled by road with a group of photographers and writers from Lagos-Nigeria to Dakar, Senegal.
She has taken part in various workshops, they include;
Story
The Nlele Institute, African Center for Photography, Lagos. March 2013
History/Matter
Center for Contemporary Art, Lagos.
March 2012.
On Independence and the Ambivalence of Promise
International Art Photography workshop, Center for Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria
8th Feb.-6th March 2010
Paris - Lagos photo exchange project, National Fine Art School of Paris, France.
27th November-10th December 2009
Paris - Lagos photo exchange project, Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, Nigeria,
April, 2008

She also took part in some exhibitions like;

History/Matter
Center for Contemporary Art, Lagos.
March 2012
Documenting Changes in our Nation (AAF, Lagos) - Mixed media Photo installation. December, 2011.
Invisible Borders 2010 exhibition at the Festival of Arts, Dakar, Senegal
December 2010.
The Idea of Africa (Re-invented), IB 2010
19th October -5th December 2010.
Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland.
On Independence and the Ambivalence of Promise, Center for Contemporary Art, Lagos,
6th March- 27th March 2010
Paris - Lagos photo exchange, April 2008.


Finalist, National Art Competition 2013. Identity. Organised by African Artists' Foundation and Nigerian Breweries.
Finalist, National Art Competition 2011. Documenting Changes in Nigeria. Organised by African Artists' Foundation and Nigerian Breweries.

Chidinma has continued to work as a visual artist and is also experimenting in the use of various media to tell her stories.