Chidi Ukwuoma, (b. Udeze Chidi Ukwuoma, 1980, Los Angeles, California, USA)

Interdisciplinary artist | Composer | Performer

Currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A

chidi@artbychidi.com | https://www.artbychidi.com

(send email to obtain postal address and phone numbers)

Education

  • 2001 – Art Center College of Design , Pasadena, CA – Photography
  • 2004 – Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles, CA – Radiologic Technology
  • 2024 – The Infinite School, Los Angeles, CA – Ceramic Sculpture

Selected Advanced Study:

  • Wynne Wilson
  • Melvino Garretti
  • Aziz Diagne
  • Julia Haft-Candell

Exhibitions (Selection)

  • Group exhibition, Dream Feelers, MOAH:Cedar Museum, Lancaster, CA (2025) – Forthcoming
  • Group exhibition, Vessels Variety Show, The Feel, Los Angeles, CA (2024)
  • Group exhibition, Heads We’re Dancing, Alto Beta, Los Angeles, CA (2024)
  • Group exhibition, Benefit Auction – CASA-LA, Los Angeles, CA (2024)
  • Group exhibition, Seeing and Being Seen, Cal State University, Northridge, CA (2024)
  • Group exhibition, Visions In Clay ’24, LH Horton Jr. Gallery, Stockton, CA (2024)
  • Group exhibition, Small Favors MMXXIV, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA (2024)
  • Group exhibition, Cup Show, Mudflat Studio, Boston, MA (2024)
  • Group exhibition, Afrofuturism & Hip Hop – Norfolk State University, VA (2024)
  • Group exhibition, Tree Home, Intersect Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2024)
  • Group exhibition, Fahrenheit ’24, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA (2024)
  • Group exhibition, Our People, Arts Center Gallery, Fayetteville, NC (2024)
  • Group exhibition, Vessels Variety Show, The Feel, Los Angeles, CA (2023)
  • Group exhibition, Benefit Auction – CASA-LA, Los Angeles, CA (2023)
  • Group exhibition, Legacies, Aziz Gallerie, Los Angeles, CA (2023)
  • Group exhibition, Leimert Park Jazz Festival, Los Angeles, CA (2023)
  • Group exhibition, Getty 25 Celebrates Crenshaw, Baldwin Hills, CA (2022)  
  • Group exhibition, Obscurity and the Unknown, Sebastian Gladstone, Los Angeles, CA (2022)  
  • Group exhibition, Chronicles of Culture, Aziz Gallerie, Los Angeles, CA (2022)
  • Group exhibition, Leimert Park Jazz Festival, Los Angeles, CA (2021)
  • Group exhibition, Revisited @ Festival Traveling, Installation, Musée des Beaux Arts, Rennes, Fr (2018)

Commissions / Public Works (Selection)

  • Commemorative Print, August Wilson‘s The Piano Lesson (Play),New York, NY (2023) – Tom Kirdahy Productions
  • Installation, “We Walk Together”, Mid-City Los Angeles, (2021)
    – Mid-City LA Corridor Beautification Project (City Of Los Angeles)

Collections (Selection)

  • Thinkspace Projects (Los Angeles, CA)
  • Sydney Kamlager-Dove, U.S. representative (37th congressional district), Washington D.C- Public
  • Isaac G. Bryan, California State Assembly (55th district), California – Public

Visiting Artist Lectures/Presentations/Critiques

  • Lecture/Presentation, Ceramics – UCLA Department of Art, Broad Art Center (2024)
  • Lecture/Presentation, Ceramics – American Museum of Ceramic Art / AMOCA (2024)

Awards/Grants/Fellowships (Honors/Scholarships/Residencies, etc.)

  • First Place Award – Afrofuturism & Hip Hop – Norfolk State University, VA (2024)

Music / Sound Art

Solo projects and performances under the pseudonym Dday One, with an emphasis in furthering the Electroacoustic sample-based music production dialogue. 

Live Performances and Audio Presentations (Selection)

  • Le Du Pop Up Label, Paris, France (2017)
  • Panke, Berlin, Germany (2017)
  • Contact, Tokyo, Japan (2012)
  • agnes B (Headquarters), Paris, France (2011)
  • Power Shovel Shower Room, Tokyo, Japan (2011) – link
  • PowerHouse Arena – Brooklyn, New York (2010)
  • Liquid Room, Tokyo, Japan (2009)

Discography / Solo Works (Selection)

  • Manu Propria, The Content Label (2022) – link
  • Artifact Ep, The Content Label (2021) – link
  • Journal | Extended, The Content Label (2017) – link
  • Gathered Between, The Content Label (2016) – link
  • Dialogue With Life, The Content Label (2014) – link
  • Mood Algorithms, The Content Label (2011) – link
  • Heavy Migration, The Content Label (2008) – link
  • Loop Extensions, The Content Label (2005) – link

Press & Print Features: (Selection)

  • Joshua Simas “Delta open annual Visions in Clay exhibition”, The Collegian, September 2024
  • Vasi Hirdo “…On view at the American Museum of Ceramic Art”, Ceramics Now, March 2024
  • Darlene Donloe “Leimert Park Jazz Festival Returns” Wave Newspaper, August 2021
  • Gil Kaufman “Pandora Stories: The Outlaw Ocean Music Project”, Billboard , April 2020 
  • Logan O’Shaughnessy “Licensed To Sample” The Find Mag, May 2017
  • Hashim Bharoocha “Dday One Interview” Wax Poetics Japan, September 2011
  • Keiko Tsukada “Taking Nothing, Producing Something, Dday One” BMR. July 2011
  • Llorenc Rovrias “Uno Entre Un Millon” TRAX Spain, April 2005

Professional Associations

  • American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
  • American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT), (RT,BD)
  • National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA)
  • National Collage Society (NCS)
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