Onome Ekeh (Palo Alto, United States, 1966) was raised on both sides of the Atlantic. OE started out as a painter, transitioned to design, fell in love with cinema, and somewhere in the collusion, went digital. Along the way she picked up an AI habit. A veteran of the New York downtown scene, she presides over a diverse body of work that encompasses film, video, theater, literature, and radio. Collaborations include works with Mabou Mines, Grisha Coleman, Okwui Okpokwasili, Carl Hancock Rux, David Thomson, and Annie Dorsen.
She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including the Jerome Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation Fellowship, a Turbulence Media Award, and the Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen Fellowship. Recent exhibitions include shows at the House of Electronic Arts Basel (HEK); Basel Social Club; and a feature in the upcoming Serpentine Gallery publication, The Shape of the Circle in the Mind of a Fish. For Berlin Art Week 2024, she curated a showcase featuring 16 international artists for AOA;87 Contemporary Gallery.
Ekeh is a frequent speaker and panelist on the intersections of art, technology and nature in forums such as the University of Basel, ArtTech Foundation, and CIMAM. She currently lectures on Speculative Culture in the Masters and Bachelors programs of the Basel Academy of Art & Design in Switzerland.
