2026
ADP: Hey Emmanuel, what art world advice would you give to your younger self?
EI: Onwards and be kind.
Biography
Emmanuel Iduma (b. 1989, Akure, Nigeria) is a writer, art critic, curator, and Gates Cambridge Scholar pursuing a PhD in Digital Humanities at the University of Cambridge. He holds a law degree from Obafemi Awolowo University and an MFA in Art Criticism and Writing from the School of Visual Arts, New York.
He is the author of three books: Farad, A Stranger’s Pose, and I Am Still With You—the latter two receiving nominations for the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New York Times, and The New York Review of Books. Among his honors are the Windham-Campbell Prize, the C/O Berlin Prize for Theory, the AICA-USA Irving Sandler Award, and inclusion on Apollo Magazine's 40 Under 40 Africa list.
Iduma served as associate curator for the inaugural Nigerian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017). His editorial and platform-building work includes co-founding Saraba Magazine (2009–2019), directing publications for the Invisible Borders Trans-African Photographers Organisation (2011–2016), and co-founding Tender Photos in 2022. He is also an affiliated scholar with the Max Planck Institute for Art History.
https://emmanueliduma.com
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