kó is pleased to announce that Victoria-Idongesit Udondian has been invited to the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia by Koyo Kouoh, taking place May 9-November 22, 2026.
Victoria-Idongesit Udondian (b. 1982, Akwa Ibom, Nigeria) works across textiles, sculpture, installation, performance, photography, video, and ceramics. Her interdisciplinary practice is driven by an ongoing investigation into textiles and the ways material design shapes identity, drawing on the histories and tacit meanings embedded in everyday fabrics and objects. Trained in tailoring, painting, sculpture, and new genres, Udondian creates large-scale interdisciplinary projects with textiles at their core, often informed by her experiences growing up in Nigeria. Her work interrogates the postcolonial condition within an increasingly globalized world, examining the intersections of migration, labour, and global trade.
Victoria-Idongesit Udondian received her B.A. in Fine Arts (Painting) from the University of Uyo, Nigeria, in 2004, and her MFA in Sculpture and New Genres from Columbia University, New York, in 2016. She also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine, She is currently Visiting Associate Professor of Art at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, New York. Udondian was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020 and the Pollock-Krasner Grant in 2018. She has participated in numerous residencies, including Fountainhead (Miami), Instituto Sacatar (Bahia, Brazil), MASS MoCA (Massachusetts), Fine Arts Work Center (Provincetown), Villa Strauli (Winterthur, Switzerland), Fondazione di Venezia (Italy), and Bag Factory Studios (Johannesburg).
Her work has been exhibited at institutions such as the Fischer Landau Center for the Arts (New York), the Bronx Museum, the Children’s Museum of Manhattan, the National Museum (Lagos), the Whitworth Gallery (Manchester), the South London Gallery, and Villa Strauli Art Centre (Switzerland). Recent solo exhibitions include After the Last Supper at The Armory Show, New York (2025), Nsinam Mi Ke Ndi Owo at Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo, New York (2025), How Can I Be Nobody at Smack Mellon, New York (2022), and Adape 1 at The Arts Collaboratory, University of Buffalo (2021). Recent group exhibitions include the British Textile Biennial (Blackburn, UK, 2023), Fragmented World/Coherent Lives at Ten North Group Gallery (Miami, 2023), and Hacer Noche: Promised Land at Museo Textil de Oaxaca (Mexico, 2022). Her work is held in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art (Nigeria), the West Collection (Philadelphia), and the Fondazione di Venezia (Italy).
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