Chidi Ukwuoma, (b. Los Angeles, California, USA)
Interdisciplinary artist | Composer | Performer
Currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A
Contact
chidi@artbychidi.com
https://www.artbychidi.com
Education & Residencies
2025 – Mountain School of Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2024 – The Infinite School, Los Angeles, CA – Ceramic Sculpture
2004 – Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles, CA – Radiologic Technology
2001 – Art Center College of Design , Pasadena, CA – Photography
Selected Advanced Study:
Wynne Wilson, Melvino Garretti, Aziz Diagne, Julia Haft-Candell
Exhibitions (Selection)
2026
Group exhibition, BUTTER Fine Art Fair, Band of Vices, Inglewood, CA
Group exhibition, Be Still, Band of Vices, Los Angeles, CA
Group exhibition, Fan the Flame, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula , MT
2025
Group exhibition, Ceramics and Works on Paper, St. Elmo Village, Los Angeles, CA
Group exhibition, The Gifting Gallery, Art Share L.A, Los Angeles, CA
Group exhibition, The Physical Story, Band of Vices, Los Angeles, CA
Group exhibition, Echoes of Self, Durden & Ray, Los Angeles, CA
Group exhibition, Fall Fair, The Feel, Los Angeles, CA
Group exhibition, The Presidents’ Show, Beatrice Wood Center, Ojai, CA
Group exhibition, Build Big & Open Studio, The Infinite School, Los Angeles, CA
Group exhibition, RA Summer Exhibition 2025′ , Royal Academy, London, UK
Group exhibition, Summer Show, The Feel, Los Angeles, CA
Group exhibition, Re-Envisioning Resilience, Barnsdall Jr Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Group exhibition, Neo-Imagina, Ivan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Group exhibition, Merge(d), The Hudgens Center for Art, Duluth, GA
Group exhibition, National Collage Society, Sasse Museum of Art, Pomona, CA
Group exhibition, Dream Feelers, MOAH:Cedar Museum, Lancaster, CA
2024
Group exhibition, Variety Show, The Feel, Los Angeles, CA
Group exhibition, Heads We’re Dancing, Alto Beta, Altadena, CA
Group exhibition, Benefit Auction – CASA-LA, Los Angeles, CA
Group exhibition, Seeing and Being Seen, Cal State University, Northridge, CA
Group exhibition, Visions In Clay ’24, LH Horton Jr. Gallery, Stockton, CA
Group exhibition, Small Favors MMXXIV, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Group exhibition, Cup Show, Mudflat Studio, Boston, MA
Group exhibition, Afrofuturism – Norfolk State University, VA
Group exhibition, Tree Home, Intersect Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Group exhibition, Fahrenheit ’24, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA
Group exhibition, Our People, Arts Center Gallery, Fayetteville, NC
2023
Group exhibition, Vessels Variety Show, The Feel, Los Angeles, CA
Group exhibition, Benefit Auction – CASA-LA, Los Angeles, CA
Group exhibition, Legacies, Aziz Gallerie, Los Angeles, CA
Group exhibition, Leimert Park Jazz Festival, Los Angeles, CA
2022
Group exhibition, Getty 25 Celebrates Crenshaw, Baldwin Hills, CA
Group exhibition, Obscurity and the Unknown, Sebastian Gladstone, Los Angeles, CA
Group exhibition, Chronicles of Culture, Aziz Gallerie, Los Angeles, CA
2021
Group exhibition, Leimert Park Jazz Festival, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Group exhibition, Revisited @ Festival Traveling, Installation, Musée des Beaux Arts, Rennes, Fr
Commissions / Public Works (Selection)
Commemorative Print, August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson, Tom Kirdahy Productions, New York, NY (2023)
Installation, “We Walk Together”, Mid-City Los Angeles, (2021)
Collections (Selection)
Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, The Bunker Art Space, Los Angeles and Florida, USA
Kayode Adegbola Collection, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria
Andrew Hosner of Thinkspace Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
Sydney Kamlager-Dove, U.S. representative (37th congressional district), Washington D.C
Isaac G. Bryan, California State Assembly (55th district), California
Visiting Artist Lectures/Presentations/Critiques
Lecture/Presentation – UCLA Department of Art, Broad Art Center (2024)
Lecture/Presentation – American Museum of Ceramic Art / AMOCA (2024)
Awards & Honors
First Place Award – Afrofuturism – Norfolk State University, VA (2024)
Music / Sound Art
Solo projects and performances under the pseudonym Dday One, exploring the intersections of sample-based composition, electroacoustic sound, and archival sonic collage.
Live Performances and Audio Presentations (Selection)
Panke, Berlin, Germany (2017)
Contact, Tokyo, Japan (2012)
agnes B (Headquarters), Paris, France (2011)
Power Shovel Shower Room, Tokyo, Japan (2011) – link
Power House Arena – Brooklyn, New York (2010)
Liquid Room, Tokyo, Japan (2009)
Discography / Solo Works (Selection)
Orchestrated Energy, The Content Label (2025) – link
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)
AAHM Calendar and Cultural Guide, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, February 2026
Genie Davis, Echoes of the Self Resonates at Durden and Ray, Diversions LA, November 2025
Royal Academy – Summer Exhibition 25′ , List of Works, 2025 , pg. 326
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 Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT), (RT,BD)
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA)
American Ceramic Society SoCal – (ACSSC)
National Collage Society (NCS)