[4] Nicodemus initially enrolled in teacher training school, but eloped to marry a Swedish economist working in Tanzania.
[1] The pair moved to Sweden in 1973, where, influenced by her experiences of everyday racism, she enrolled in Stockholm University in 1978 to study social anthropology.
This quickly led to a solo exhibition of paintings and poems at the National Museum of Tanzania in Dar es Salaam in 1980.
[2] Her work includes paintings, collages, mixed-media assemblages, and poetry, and has been informed by racism, trauma, PTSD, and recovery.
[7] Nicodemus won the Freelands Foundation Award in 2022,[3] which supported the first retrospective of her work, at the National Galleries of Scotland, from September 2024 to May 2025.