BIOGRAPHY
Deinma David Iyagba is an artist originally from Southern Nigeria, now based in Winnipeg, Canada. A recent graduate of the University of Manitoba's Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honors) program. His artistic praxis moves between a multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach to making. It involves a fascination with the fluid and harmonious collaboration of various artistic mediums were the multi-dimensionality of that collaboration becomes the gateway he uses to explore a diverse array of themes.
Deinma was the recipient of the Cecil C. Richards Memorial Award for Sculpture and the Tania (Tye) Asper Memorial Prize for painting at the University of Manitoba. He was also one of the selected artists to attend the Summer Institute residency hosted by the Plug-In Institute of Contemporary Art in Winnipeg Manitoba. In 2024 he had a successful Solo exhibition “To Create Context” hosted by Ace Art Inc, a Gallery in Winnipeg Manitoba. He also exhibited alongside his graduating cohort, in their final group Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honors) exhibition.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I am an artist originally from Southern Nigeria, currently based in Winnipeg, Canada. My artistic praxis is deeply rooted in a multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach. I am fascinated by the fluid and harmonious collaboration of various artistic mediums and materials. This often involves exploring multi-dimensionality and combining methodologies, for example, video and painting on sculpture or translating painting into sculptural installations and so on. This approach serves as my gateway to experiment and engage with a diverse array of themes.
The act of storytelling, metaphor, history, space, time, liminality, presence in absence, identity, performance, allegory, migration, boundaries, and religion, among others, are examples of themes I engage with. These themes, in many ways, serve as my paths of articulation within my work.