# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ken-nwadiogbu
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:19:37.136Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ken-nwadiogbu"
name: "Ken Nwadiogbu"
slug: "ken-nwadiogbu"
description: "Ken Nwadiogbu is a Nigerian-born, London-based multidisciplinary artist working across painting, sculpture, installation, and video art. Trained initially as a civil engineer at the University of Lagos, he transitioned fully into fine art, first building a reputation through hyperrealistic charcoal portraiture before expanding into a wider conceptual practice. He coined the term \"contemporealism\" to describe his view that hyperrealism alone cannot capture the full depth of lived experience — that an image of a moment is not the moment itself. By merging realism with other forms of contemporary art, contemporealism seeks to represent not just the appearance of an experience but its emotion, mood, and feeling."
tagline: "Nigerian visual artist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ken_Nwadiogbu%E2%80%99s_Profile_picture.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Nigeria"
  isoCode: "NG"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1994"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.737401333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.kennwadiogbu.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ken_Nwadiogbu"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://dag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Nwadiogbu"
    title: "Ken Nwadiogbu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Nwadiogbu"
    title: "Ken Nwadiogbu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Nwadiogbu"
    title: "Ken Nwadiogbu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Nwadiogbu"
    title: "Ken Nwadiogbu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Nwadiogbu"
    title: "Ken Nwadiogbu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%86_%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%DA%AF%D8%A8%D9%88"
    title: "کین نوادیوگبو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48472570"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump