Victoria-Idongesit Udondian

Victoria-Idongesit Udondian (born 1982), also known as Victoria Udondian, is a Nigerian artist. Specializing in textile work, installations, and performance art, her work often involves themes of Black history, labour, and the global trade of secondhand clothing. She is a 2019 MacDowell Fellow and a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow. Biography Victoria-Idongesit Udondian was born in 1982 in Akwa Ibom State. She appeared at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015. In 2017, she started her project The Republic of Unknown Territory while becoming a naturalized American citizen. In 2020, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts. In 2022, she held her first New York City solo exhibition at Smack Mellon, How Can I Be Nobody, an installation which uses black-colored fabric "in acknowledgement of the black and brown lives lost in search of better conditions". A collaboration with the Foundation for Contemporary Art, Okrika Reclaimed appeared at Kantamanto on 12 July 2025.

Ayanna Dozier remarked that themes of Udondian's artwork often involve "unseen" forms of labour and stereotypically feminine work, including domestic work, the service industry, and the textile industry.