Rom Isichei’s
practice indexes an unbridled engagement with, and interrogation of
relationships between materials, process, and experimentation. His media
encapsulates painting, collage, sculpture, and conceptual photography.
Rom’s career
as an artist commenced from the ornate world of advertising. Shortly after
obtaining his first degree in Painting from the preeminent Yaba College of
Technology in 1989, he took up employment in the advertising industry as
sustenance to his burgeoning studio practice. In 1997, he truncated this
promising pilgrimage in advertising and engaged full time with studio practice,
and has since then built up an illustrious career
His works are
conceptual distillations of contemporary visual culture that tells anecdotal
stories with a complexity that dissects generic and familiar themes into new
visual connotations. His methodology embraces an assemblage of varied materials
on often two-dimensional plane to form a collage-like, sculpture infused compositions
that inspires avant-garde realities.
Rom Isichei
was born in Asaba, Nigeria. He currently lives and works in Lagos. He earned an
HND in Fine Arts from Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, a Postgraduate Diploma
and an MFA from Chelsea College of Art and design, London. He has exhibited
widely- both locally and international.
His works are
featured in diverse publications and included in numerous public and private
collections. Rom is listed in “who is who” in contemporary Nigerian Art,
Smithsonian Museum of African Art Library, Washington DC.