Chidi Ukwuoma
Born Los Angeles, California, USA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California, USA
artbychidi.com
Education
2024 — The Infinite School, Los Angeles, CA — Ceramic Sculpture
2004 — Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles, CA — Radiologic Technology
2001 — ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA — Photography
Residencies
2025 — Mountain School of Arts (MSA^), Los Angeles, CA
Selected Advanced Study
Melvino Garretti
Aziz Diagne
Julia Haft-Candell
Solo Exhibitions
2026
Containing Matter, Matter Studio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026
Ceramics and Works on Paper, St. Elmo Village, Los Angeles, CA — forthcoming
42nd Annual Exhibit, National Collage Society, Kingsborough Art Museum, Brooklyn, NY — forthcoming
Invitational Benefit Auction, CASA/LA, Los Angeles, CA — forthcoming
ICONS, Band of Vices, Los Angeles, CA — forthcoming
ENCORE, Band of Vices, Los Angeles, CA — forthcoming
Small Favors MMXXVI, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
The Presidents’ Show, Beatrice Wood Center, Ojai, CA
Leimert Park Jazz Festival, Los Angeles, CA
AHF Girls Act Fundraiser, Riverside Art Museum / The Cheech, Riverside, CA — invitational auction
L.A. Streets, Structures & Stories, Band of Vices, Los Angeles, CA
6X6, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY
Venice Family Clinic Art Exhibition + Auction, Venice, CA
Domestic Disco, The Feel, Los Angeles, CA
Be Still, Band of Vices, Los Angeles, CA
Fan the Flame, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT
2025
Ceramics and Works on Paper, St. Elmo Village, Los Angeles, CA
Invitational Benefit Auction, CASA/LA, Los Angeles, CA
The Gifting Gallery, Art Share L.A., Los Angeles, CA
The Physical Story, Band of Vices, Los Angeles, CA
Echoes of Self, Durden & Ray, Los Angeles, CA
The Presidents’ Show, Beatrice Wood Center, Ojai, CA
Fall Fair, The Feel, Los Angeles, CA
Build Big & Open Studio, The Infinite School, Los Angeles, CA
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Summer Show, The Feel, Los Angeles, CA
Re-Envisioning Resilience, Barnsdall Jr. Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Neo-Imagina, Ivan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Merge(d), The Hudgens Center for Art, Duluth, GA
28th Annual Small Format Exhibit, National Collage Society, Sasse Museum of Art, Pomona, CA
Dream Feelers, MOAH, Lancaster, CA
2024
Variety Show, The Feel, Los Angeles, CA
Heads We’re Dancing, Alto Beta, Altadena, CA
Invitational Benefit Auction, CASA/LA, Los Angeles, CA
Seeing and Being Seen, California State University, Northridge, CA
Visions in Clay ’24, LH Horton Jr. Gallery, Stockton, CA
Small Favors MMXXIV, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Cup Show, Mudflat Studio, Boston, MA
Afrofuturism, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA
Tree Home, Intersect Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Fahrenheit ’24, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA
Our People, Arts Center Gallery, Fayetteville, NC
2023
Vessels Variety Show, The Feel, Los Angeles, CA
Benefit Auction, CASA/LA, Los Angeles, CA
Legacies, Aziz Gallerie, Los Angeles, CA
Leimert Park Jazz Festival, Los Angeles, CA
2022
Getty 25 Celebrates Crenshaw, Baldwin Hills, CA
Obscurity and the Unknown, Sebastian Gladstone, Los Angeles, CA
Chronicles of Culture, Aziz Gallerie, Los Angeles, CA
2021
Leimert Park Jazz Festival, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Revisited @ Festival Traveling, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes, France — installation
Art Fairs
2026
BUTTER Fine Art Fair, Band of Vices, Inglewood, CA
Collections (Selection)
Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, The Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach, FL
Kayode Adegbola, Lagos, Nigeria
Andrew Hosner, Thinkspace Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
Sydney Kamlager-Dove, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, DC
Isaac G. Bryan, California State Assembly, Sacramento, CA
Commissions / Public Works (Selection)
2027 — Charlie Parker Jazz Festival 2027, Festival Campaign Artwork, City Parks Foundation, New York, NY — licensed artwork
2026 — Leimert Park Jazz Festival 2026, Festival Campaign Artwork, LPJF, Los Angeles, CA
2023 — Commemorative Print, August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson, Tom Kirdahy Productions, New York, NY
2021 — Public Installation, We Walk Together, Mid-City, Los Angeles, CA
Visiting Artist Lectures / Presentations / Critiques
2024 — Lecture / Presentation, UCLA Department of Art, Broad Art Center, Los Angeles, CA
2024 — Lecture / Presentation, American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA), Pomona, CA
Awards & Honors
2026 — First Place Award, 7th Annual Leimert Park Jazz Festival, Los Angeles, CA
2024 — First Place Award, Afrofuturism, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA
Music / Sound Art
Creates and performs under the pseudonym Dday One, producing sample-based compositions that explore electroacoustic sound, memory, and archival collage.
Live Performances and Audio Presentations (Selection)
2017 — Panke, Berlin, Germany
2012 — Contact, Tokyo, Japan
2011 — agnès b. (Headquarters), Paris, France
2011 — Power Shovel Shower Room, Tokyo, Japan
2010 — Power House Arena, Brooklyn, NY
2009 — Liquid Room, Tokyo, Japan
Discography / Solo Works (Selection)
2025 — Orchestrated Energy, The Content Label — Listen
2022 — Manu Propria, The Content Label — Listen
2021 — Artifact EP, The Content Label — Listen
2017 — Journal | Extended, The Content Label — Listen
2016 — Gathered Between, The Content Label — Listen
2014 — Dialogue With Life, The Content Label — Listen
2011 — Mood Algorithms, The Content Label — Listen
2008 — Heavy Migration, The Content Label — Listen
2005 — Loop Extensions, The Content Label — Listen
Press & Print Features (Selection)
2026 — Vasi Hirdo, “Containing Matter at Matter Studio Gallery, Los Angeles,” Ceramics Now, July.
2026 — African American Heritage Month Calendar and Cultural Guide, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, February.
2025 — Genie Davis, “Echoes of the Self Resonates at Durden and Ray,” Diversions LA, November.
2025 — Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2025, List of Works, p. 326.
2024 — 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.
2021 — Darlene Donloe, “Leimert Park Jazz Festival Returns,” Wave Newspaper, August.
2020 — Gil Kaufman, “Pandora Stories: The Outlaw Ocean Music Project,” Billboard, April.
2017 — Logan O’Shaughnessy, “Licensed to Sample,” The Find Mag, May.
2011 — Hashim Bharoocha, “Dday One Interview,” Wax Poetics Japan, September.
2011 — Keiko Tsukada, “Taking Nothing, Producing Something, Dday One,” BMR, July.
2005 — Llorenc Rovrias, “Uno Entre Un Millon,” TRAX Spain, April.
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)