Chiemeka Offor
2024 HEAR US Awardee
Undergraduate Film & TV Class of 2025
Chiemeka Offor is a Nigerian-American multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. She currently focuses on editorial photography, poetic experimental short films, and painting. Chiemeka hopes to magnify and uplift black women by using her art to highlight their experiences, their strength, and the realities of western beauty expectations and assimilation. She also uses self-portraiture often as a way to speak up for herself and others in her community. She wants more young black women to take up space and the spotlight that they have long deserved. Chiemeka takes much inspiration from her dreams, afro-futurism, and surrealism. By using dramatic elements of light, color, distortion, and fashion, she hopes to mesh the two worlds of fashion photography and visual activism.
Project
"Black Dreams" is an surreal exploration of the dreams and resilience of young black artists in New York. The project encompasses a 15-minute documentary, a community photo-booth installation, and immersive art exhibit.
In a realm of darkness, a young woman harnesses divine visions of God, light, and water to manifest her dreams, unlocking a mesmerizing inner universe of art, beauty, and movement beyond imagination. 'Black Dreams' is a surreal, experimental documentary, an artistic testament to young, black women and non-binary artists in New York and their audacity to exist in their fullness at all times. As they peel back the layers, they unearth their brilliance, discovering solace and kinship within their community and a newfound sense that they are never truly alone.
