About Zina
Zina Saro-Wiwa is a multi-disciplinary artist working with video installation, sound, photography, film, distillation, food and institution-building. Her subject of interest are primarily environmentalism under which she explores invisible and spiritual ecologies and the nature of power and she is constantly studying and re-imagining indigeneity. She is committed to exploring how earth-based wisdoms challenge political power dynamics and advance creativity. She runs her own not-for-profit the Mangrove Arts Foundation which uses art, culture, food and agricultural projects including her Illicit Gin Institute to transform the fate of the oil-cursed Niger Delta where she was born. She is a composer and musician. She has released her debut album Songs For The End of the World under the moniker SIRA*. You can listen to the album here.
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Zina speaks out about her father's exoneration
16th June 2025, BBC Focus on Africa
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Financial Times
How To Spend It: “The Real Problem With NFTs is That They’re Ugly“ by Louis Wise, 14th March 2022
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NYTimes
For Zina Saro-Wiwa, Food Carries Meaning and Metaphor. Written by Ted Loos.
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Frieze Magazine
“It’s Time to Decolonize Environmentalism.” An interview by Ismael Einashe
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ArtForum
Zina discusses her new show in London.
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ArtPapers
The Weight of Absence and What Remains by Emmanuel Balogun
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MiMA
Middlesborough Institute of Modern Art: Hearing from Artists
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The Guardian
The Nigerian artist has her first solo show in London. She talks food, family and the forest that her father, the environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, gave his life to protect. Interview by Claire Armistead
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Art Basel
Zina Saro-Wiwa: Performing Table Manners in 21st Century Nigeria by Rizvana Bradley
