Everlyn Nicodemus

Everlyn Nicodemus is a Tanzanian-born artist, writer, and curator, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Early life and career Nicodemus initially enrolled in teacher training school, but eloped to marry a Swedish economist working in Tanzania.

While back in Tanzania doing fieldwork, Nicodemus started making art in response to her discomfort with anthropology. This quickly led to a solo exhibition of paintings and poems at the National Museum of Tanzania in Dar es Salaam in 1980. She completed her PhD on African Modern Art and Black Cultural Trauma at Middlesex University in 2012.

Nicodemus won the Freelands Foundation Award in 2022, and became the first painted self-portrait by a black female artist in the gallery's collection.