About — Chinenye Ozowalu

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Chinenye Ozowalu is an artist, creative strategist, and researcher who challenges societal norms to create alternative realities. She works at the intersection of visual culture, conceptual art, and photography, with a practice rooted in research that moves fluidly between image-making, curation, and preservation.

In 2025, Chinenye Ozowalu was a Research Fellow at the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Art History, where she explored how Black spatial practice and installation culminate within the photographic image. Her curatorial and archival work includes internships at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, and the Joan Lyons Independent Press Archive at the Visual Studies Workshop.

She is the founder of the RIT Black Visionary Society, a platform for critical conversation and creative resistance, and was a 2025 TED x RIT speaker, where she spoke on the visuality of cultural memory and AI. Her work has earned recognition from the Anderson Ranch Arts Center and she was honoured in Carnegie Hall as a National Gold Medalist from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. She has exhibited in juried shows such as Decolonizing Feminism at Woman Made Gallery in Chicago and the RIT Photography Honors Showcase, and is currently completing senior year as a BFA in Visual Media with a minor in Marketing and a concentration in Black Studies.

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