Fatimah Tuggar

Born in Kaduna, Nigeria
Raised in Nigeria and United Kingdom

Fatimah Tuggar is a multidisciplinary artist who uses technology as both medium and subject in her work to serve as metaphors for power dynamics. She combines, objects, images and sounds from diverse cultures, geographies and histories to comment on how media and technology diversely impacts local and global realities.

Tuggar’s work has been widely exhibited at international venues, in over twenty-five countries, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, US; Museum Kunst-Palast, Dusseldorf, Germany; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; the 24th Biennial of Graphic Art, Ljubljana Slovenia; and Moscow, Istanbul, Kwangju and Bamako Biennials.

Her works have been the subject of various panels and articles. Her body of work has also been integrated as parts of academic curricula, in diverse disciplines and discussions, including technology, new media, politics, cultural studies, feminism, diaspora, globalization, anthropology, sculpture, photography, and video among others.

Tuggar’s art education covers three continents and a broader range of disciplines, traditions, processes, and materials. She attended the Blackheath School of Art in London, England, received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Kansas City Art Institute, a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University and conducted postgraduate independent study at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She is currently, Assistant Professor of Contemporary Issues of Representation at OCAD University in Toronto.

Tuggar is the recipient of prestigious accolades, such as the Civitella Ranieri Fellowship; the W. A. Mellon Research Fellowship, awarded by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute; and has produced commissioned works for several art institutions including Tempo Exhibition, Museum of Mordern Art, New York; In Space (Web Art) Grant, Art Production Fund, New York; Nordic Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark; Special Commission, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, and In the Public Realm, Public Art Fund, New York.