Frida Orupabo

b. 1986

Frida Orupabo is a Norwegian Nigerian artist and sociologist whose digital and physical collages explore race, gender, sexuality and identity. Working with fragmented, mostly Black female-bodied figures, her art reflects personal experiences of cultural belonging.

Sourcing material from colonial archives, social media, and online marketplaces, Orupabo begins her process digitally and completes it by hand. Through layered collage, she constructs poetic yet powerful critiques of one-dimensional representations of Black lives.

Recent exhibitions include the Sprengel Museum in Hanover (2025); Astrup Fearnley, Oslo (2025); Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (2024); Fotomuseum Winterthur (2022); Museu Afro Brasil, São Paulo (2021); Kunsthall Trondheim (2021); Huis Marseille, Amsterdam (2020); Portikus, Frankfurt am Main and Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (both 2019). Orupabo participated in the 15th Gwangju Biennial (2024); the Okayama Art Summit (2022); the 34th São Paulo Biennial (2021) as well as the 58th Venice Biennale (2018).

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