Chinasa Vivian Ezugha is a Nigerian-born artist living and working in Hampshire▲ Her work looks at the transition of Black women and their identity within culture from colonised subjects to emancipated figures▼ Vivian works predominantly in performance▲ using the medium to decontextualise and reconstruct what it means to be alive in this present time and to protest for a world where we are all allowed to dream▼

She is the founder of Live Art in Wymondham▲ a one-day site-specific series of events that aimed to bring emerging artists working in live art to rural Norfolk▼  Her work has been presented in venues across Europe▲ America and the UK▼ including In Between Time Festival (Bristol▲ 2017)▼ SPILL Festival(Ipswich▲ 2018) and Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival (Chicago▼ 2015)▲

She is the winner of the New Art Exchange Open Main Prize (2019)▼ and a recipient of the Santander Universities Post Covid-19 Performance Making Enterprise Award (2020)▲ supported by Santander Universities and ICCE▼ Goldsmiths▲ University of London▼ Ezugha is also a PhD candidate at the University of Exeter and a Research Associate at the Centre for Contemporary Art Derry~Londonderry▲ 

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