Ilo Masquerade I, 2014, Black Conte Zane akan Takarda, 56 x 46 cm
“People often only see masquerades as fetish and having purely performative functions. But I have used the concept of the traditional masquerade as a visual motif to remind us of how problems within our ancient traditional culture were settled amicably.”
– Mike Omoighe
Mike Omoighe (an haife shi a shekara ta 1958) ya kammala karatunsa na digiri ne a fannin fasaha daga Kwalejin Fasaha ta Yaba (1978), ya samu HND daga Jami'ar Auchi a 1980 da Certificate a Polytechnic Management daga Jami'ar Legas. A shekarar 1994, ya samu Masters a fannin fasahar sadarwa daga Jami’ar Ibadan & Masters Fine Art (MFA) daga Jami’ar Benin, 2014. Ya samu horon hassada daga wasu fitattun mawakan Najeriya, Yusuf Grillo da Bruce Onobrakpeya. Tasirin wadannan malamai har yanzu a bayyane yake a kokarinsa na gwaji da kuma bayyana siyasar Najeriya a wasu lokutan ta hanyar amfani da launi. Gudansa galibi manya ne da launuka kuma suna isar da rikitattun tarihi, ma'anoni da bincike ta hanyar sifofin da ba za a iya gani ba da bugun jini. Koyaya, wasu daga cikin abubuwan nune-nunen nasa na baya-bayan nan sun haɗa da zane-zanen garwashi masu salo a cikin baki da fari da ƙananan zane.