In Residence: 13 May – 14 June 2025
Elena Njoabuzia Onwochei-Garcia (b.1996, Bristol, UK) is a figurative painter and installation artist. Her practice draws from mythology, literature, and historical research, to weave bold visual narratives that explore how histories are constructed and remembered.
Elena lives and works in Glasgow. She completed her MFA at the Glasgow School of Art (2023) and BA in History and Art History at Durham University (2019).
She was selected for the ACS Studio Prize (2024), Bloomberg New Contemporary (2023), and Robert Walters UK New Artist finalist 2023 and was awarded the RSA John Kinross Scholarship and the Leverhulme Master of Fine Art Bursary.
Recent exhibitions include: The House of Bernarda Alba (Elizabeth Xi Bauer, 2024-5), Quixotic (Twilight Contemporary, 2024), Buried (OHSH x Thames-side Studios, 2024), New Contemporaries (Camden Art Centre, 2024 and Grundy Art Gallery, 2023), UK New Artist (Saatchi Gallery, 2023) and Royal British Society of Artists Rising Stars (2022).
Onwochei-Garcia’s works are in the collections of the Scottish Royal Academy, English Heritage and the Simon Nixon Foundation.
