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Iké Udé
Iké Udé (born 1964) is a Nigerian-American photographer, performance artist, author and publisher. He is best known for his conceptual photographic portraits that explore issues of representation and sexual, gender, cultural, and stylistic identity. Udé currently lives and works in New York City.
==Early Life and Education==
Born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria, Udé is a dual citizen of the United States and Nigeria. He is the eldest son of a well-to-do family. His family dressed up for biweekly portraits,〔Mary Billard, Iké Udé' - The Wildness of Clothes, but Not for Fashion - NYTimes.com, October 30, 2013. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/31/fashion/ike-ude-the-wildness-of-clothes-but-not-for-fashion.html?_r=0〕 exposing Udé to photography and portraiture at an early age. Udé has said that he knew he was an artist by the age of six, when he developed "a habit of firing at passers-by with a catapult" when he "disapproved of their walk or their way of dress."
As an adolescent, Udé attended the (Government Secondary School ), a British boarding school in Afikpo, Nigeria. He was a habitué of London before he moved to New York〔Carol Kino, Iké Udé at Leila Heller, Working Practice, p.7, October 2013. http://www.1stdibs.com/introspective/working_practice/ike_ude_at_leila_heller/〕 in 1981 to study Media Communications at Hunter College, CUNY. He began his artistic art career in the late 1980s with abstract painting and drawing. Since the 1990s, photography has been Udé's primary medium.〔Iké Udé's biography by National Museum of African Art http://africa.si.edu/collections/view/people/asitem/Objects$004016634/0;jsessionid=247FB0E15A4BF7D2CF19C5F1E840AAB7?t:state:flow=4fc28d26-1c1a-4f4d-bae4-bd9e5f1ec77f〕
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