Who We Are
Alafuro Sikoki-Coleman is an industrial designer and artist. She is the founder of Studio Sikoki, a design + art + research facility where she explores the dynamics between the object, user and the environment.
Sikoki-Coleman’s work analyses the construction of culture, history and identity of the individual, community and location.
Sikoki-Coleman graduated from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia with a Master’s Degree in Industrial Design. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Authoring and Design from Coventry University, UK.
Alafuro Sikoki-Coleman at The Horniman Museum London, 2021
Workshops
Curating Power
Facilitator on curating workshop exploring power and how it is navigated and expressed through art.
UCL Culture Lab, 2023 - 2024
Exhibitions
‘Weaving Constellations of Identity’ by Matri-Archi(tecture)
Here We Are! Women in Design 1900 - Today
Vitra Design Museum, Germany, 2021
‘Destination Paradise’
[Re:]Entanglements Exhibition
The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, UK, 2021
‘Nigeria60’
World Gallery
Horniman Museum & Gardens, London, 2021
‘The Native and The Narrative'
Seeds For Future Memories
Villa Romana, Florence, Italy, 2019
‘Woyingi'
The Nigerian Encounter, World Gallery
Horniman Museum & Gardens, London, 2018
‘Private Atlas: Nigeria 1960'
Flow of Forms/Forms of Flow Exhibition
Musuem für Völkerkunde, Hamburg, 2018
‘H++’
Pure Gold. Upcycled! Upgraded!
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, 2017
‘H++’ & 'Private Atlas: Nigeria 1960'
Flow of Forms/Forms of Flow Exhibition
Architekturmuseum, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, 2017
‘The Modern Evolution Suit’ (ModEv)
Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design.
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, 2018 - 2019
Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2018
High Museum of Art Atlanta, 2017 - 2018
Kunsthal Rotterdam, 2016 - 2017
CCCB Barcelona, 2016
Guggenheim Bilbao, 2015
Vitra Design Museum, 2015
‘Woman’
What is Textiles?
Kalopsia Gallery, Edinburgh, 2014
‘Born Kinky’ & ‘Nigerianisms’
Designing Africa
AAF Gallery, Lagos, 2013
“2 Minute Photo Theatre”
LagosPhoto Festival, 2012
‘The Modern Evolution Suit’ (ModEv)
Beyond Football Exhibition, Goethe Institut Johannesburg, South Africa, 2012
LagosPhoto Festival, 2011
Beyond Football Exhibition, Goethe Institut Lagos, Nigeria, 2011
Savvy Contemporary Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2011
‘Nigerianisms’
Lagos Art Expo, Nigeria, 2010
‘Closthetics’
Well-Tech Innovation Awards Exhibition
Palazzo Isimbardi, Milan, Italy, 2010
‘Sleeper’
Lagos Art Expo, Nigeria, 2009
‘United Airlines of Africa (UAA)’
3rd International Design Cinema Conference at Istanbul, Turkey, 2008
‘Resurgam’ (Solo exhibition)
Goethe Institut Lagos, Nigeria, 2007
‘The Prosthetic Ornament’
Annual Student Exhibition (Best of Show) Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Philadelphia, USA, 2006
Design Show, Basekamp, Philadelphia, USA, 2006
‘Green Screen’
UARTS @ Design Philadelphia, C.H.A.D, Philadelphia, USA, 2005
‘Corus’
D&AD Global Student Awards, Old Billingsgate, London, UK, 2005
Untitled Works in typography and photography
D&AD New Blood Exhibition, Common Wealth Centre, London, UK, 2003
‘Smart Buildings; Information Design as Intelligent Design’
Exhibitionism – Annual Student Exhibition, Coventry University, UK, 2003
Awards
National Art Competition
Second place prize for ‘Cog’, 2012
WT Award
Well-Tech Top Ten Finalist Innovation in Design Awards
‘Closthetics’ for ©Farabloc, 2010
I.D Magazine Award
Honourable mention for ‘The Prosthetic Ornament’, 2007
D&AD Global Student Awards
First place prize for ‘Corus’ steel package design, 2005
Publications
Flow of Forms/Forms of Flow (Eds. Kerstin Pinther, Alexandra Weigand, 2018)
Pure Gold (2017)
Africa Under the Prism (2015)
Making Africa (2015)
The History of Sustainable Design - What Position Needs Design? (Ed. Karin-Simone Fuhs et al, 2013)
I.D Annual Student Review (2007)
D&AD Annual (2005)
Talks & Presentations
Podcast Interview: Alafuro Sikoki-Coleman on exhibition design
African Object Lessons
Aired on 8th December, 2021
Radio interview: The artist and the community
Latitude on air 04-07 June, 2020
Goethe Institut Munich, Aired on 4th June, 2020
Lecture: H++, if design is the answer, then what is the question?
TRANSVERSE TRAJECTORIES. Speculative routes out of ruinous landscapes Symposium
Villa Romana, Florence, Italy, 10th November, 2019
Flow of Forms/Forms of Flow artist talk
Flow of Forms/Forms of Flow Exhibition
Architekturmuseum, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, 3rd February 2017
Artist talk at SWICH Workshop: Historic Collections, Contemporary Lives
Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology
University of Cambridge, 28th March, 2017