Aisha Seriki | Artist Overview

Aisha Olamide Seriki (b1998) is a Nigerian multi-disciplinary artist in London, specialising in fine art photography and sculpture. Seriki works from a canon of personal histories which splice contemporary realities. Her practice is holistic and embodied, subverting formal photographic traditions. Cosmological systems such as the Yoruba Spiritual Tradition have informed the multisensory approach Seriki has to documentation, communication and creation. Through optics and trickery, she challenges the rigid imagination of self, creating space in the archive for a wider definition. Aisha was awarded the Sanctuary Scholarship in 2017 and graduated with a first-class honours degree in Global Liberal Arts from SOAS University of London in 2020. In 2021, she was a finalist for the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize. In 2023, she was awarded the Frank Bowling Scholarship and completed the Photography MA programme at the Royal College of Art, where she is now undertaking her MFA in Fine Arts and Humanities. Aisha’s project Orí Inú received the RCA’s New Photography Prize, the SW Darkroom Award and the inaugural JM Finn Graduate Artist Award (2023). In May 2024, Aisha won the V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography and was shortlisted for the Photo London x Nikon Emerging Photographer Award.