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Julianna Chioma

WNC Craft Futures Cohort

2025

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Julianna Chioma is a Nigerian-American emerging artist based in Asheville, North Carolina.

Working across multiple disciplines—including painting, ceramics, textiles, and installation—her practice explores the rich tapestry of myth and narrative surrounding themes of sex, power, identity, cultural perceptions, trauma, suffering, and healing.

Chioma's work reimagines mythological characters adapted from her favorite cartoons as avatars of the psyche and bearers of truth. Through these characters, she unfolds epic journeys of loss, discovery, and growth. Influenced by the disorienting nature of psychological horror, surrealism, and Nigerian folklore, she creates stratified renderings encased in stitches, paint, and mud that communicate the complex experience of Black womanhood.

Her work has been featured in group exhibitions at Revolve, the Center for Craft, and the GreenHill Center for Art. She is also the recipient of the Partnership Editions UK Emerging Artists Open Call.

Asheville, NC

$15,000

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