Selected Works – Frida Orupabo

In rearranging and newly reassembling the dissected fragments, Orupabo creates figures of resistance that challenge how and what we see in a present-day reality that remains permeated by colonialism.

Artist : Frida Orupabo

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Norwegian Nigerian artist and sociologist Frida Orupabo creates analogue and digital collages and video installations from visual material circulating online. From photographs from the colonial era as well as from contemporary imagery, from ethnography, medicine, and science to art and pop culture, Orupabo dissects representations of the Black, mostly female body as a means to negotiate themes of colonial violence, racism, sexuality, identity, and belonging. In rearranging and newly reassembling the dissected fragments, Orupabo creates figures of resistance that challenge how and what we see in a present-day reality that remains permeated by colonialism.

Orupabo was awarded the SPECTRUM – Internationaler Preis für Fotografie prize in 2025. She received the Royal Photographic Society Honorary Fellowship (2023), and was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize and the Joan Miró Prize (both in 2023), as well as the Future Generation Art Prize (2020).

Her work is held in major public and private collections in Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, and the USA, including the Tate and Victoria and Albert Museum, London (UK), the Guggenheim Museum (USA), and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Denmark).