Biography.

Photo of the artist, shoulder up. Artist wearing black clothing, silver hoop earrings and blue and white headwrap standing in front of a brick wall.

Photo Credit: ‘Tola Adegboye

Theodora Songhai is a multi-disciplinary artist and theologian whose practice spans performance, analogue photomontage, personal essay, testimony, and academic research.

Born in Brazzaville, Congo, to parents of Ghanaian-Nigerian heritage, Songhai lived in four African countries by the age of thirteen, following her father's work with the United Nations. She moved to the UK at thirteen and has lived and worked across England. A Londoner by formation and a nomad by nature, she is currently based in Edinburgh, Scotland, and preparing to relocate to Porto, Portugal, in 2025.

Her interests lie at the intersection of the body, identity (race and gender), ritual, migration and pilgrimage, meaning-making, and autobiography. She is a trained theologian and former Anglican priest, and her creative work is inseparable from her theological convictions — particularly her understanding of creativity as an expression of imago Dei, the image of God in every human person.

Flight (2022–2023) is her first collection. Her research project, Fragmentos da Memória, exploring the material and spiritual dimensions of migration and cultural identity in Lusophone space, begins in Porto in September 2025.