Caroline Useh

Biography

Caroline Useh, (b.1994) is a Nigerian visual artist who expresses herself through diverse mediums. She is a graduate of painting from Auchi Polytechnic Auchi, 2019. In her quest to find a distinctive way of expressing herself, she employs the use of found materials in creating her works with the background knowledge of mixed media as an alternative to painting. With this, she is able to stir conversations between her work and the audience. In 2024, she emerged as one of the top fifteen shortlisted finalists for the Kuenyahia art prize, Ghana. In 2023, she was one of the top ten finalists of Next of Kin Series 5, an annual juried competition and exhibition. Caroline lives and works in Lagos, Nigeria. Art is humanity, so is humanity a piece of art that educates, advocates, protests, projects, questions, challenges, provokes and deciphers our behavioral actions. Caroline, through her art, aims to help curb environmental disturbances as well as sensitizing her audience on an alternative means to waste management. From time, we have all possess a will power and strength in our diverse space of existence that have summed up to nation building. The fanciest spike that beautify our environment is the presence of colors with different shades, class, look, creed and volume that are unified to encourage accommodation and compassion. Art has been a mediator to addressing societal, economical and ecosystem issues. Caroline's art is an awakening for constant research, for sustainable materials innovations. A journey to figure how the creative world can still thrive without a limitation to a specific medium to creating art, a dare to materials manipulation with a burning zeal to always infuse something new to each body of work.