Chuma Anagbado

B. 1982, Nigeria. Chuma Anagbado is a Nigerian artist and designer. He majored in Fine and Applied Arts (Sculpture) at the University of Benin, graduating in 2005. In 2013, he completed a master’s degree in Design with distinction honours from the University for the Creative Arts, Rochester, UK.

Chuma co-founded Aziza Design in 2014 and Mbari Uno in 2018. In 2021, he transitioned to full-time studio Art practice. He creates pyrography art by using industrial laser technology to etch his digital drawings on physical surfaces, resulting in a ‘phygital’ artform – combining traditional and digital techniques. Chuma’s ‘Uli Art’ styled spirited drawings are centred on Identity, illustrating themes from material and non-material aspects of Igbo culture, both past and present. He has created bodies of work with reclaimed wood and is currently working with plexiglass and integrating his work into architecture.

His works have been collected locally, internationally and are in the permanent collections of the Afrika House, Center for Memories and the Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art.

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