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.