Somi Nwandu was born in 1993 in Maryland, U.S.A. and grew up in Enugu, eastern Nigeria, as well as in the US. From an early age she was fascinated with photography and spent years exploring digital software alongside expressing her creativity through writing, painting, drawings and fashion sketches. She moved to New York at the […]
Data Oruwari (born 1987) is a self-taught Visual Artist and Creative Professional born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria. She is passionate about creativity and art is just one of the ways she expresses it. Though she holds no formal art training, her interest in art comes from her father who was an artist himself. Data’s […]
Isaac Emokpae (born 1976) is a Nigerian visual artist who studied art at the University of Lagos under Professor Abayomi Barber. He focused on painting at University but has worked in fashion photography and journalistic photography for most of his working life. He is the son of well known Nigerian modern artist, Erhabor Emokpae and […]
Peju Alatise (born 1975) is a Nigerian mixed media artist, writer and poet, with an educational background in architecture. She has always been drawn to art and has been a practicing studio artist for over sixteen years. Peju has held several solo exhibitions, and her works reside in many local and international collections around the […]
Born in Australia (1975) and raised in Nigeria, Nnenna Okore received her first degree in painting from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, in 1999 and went on to receive an MA and MFA at the University of Iowa. She received the Fulbright Scholar Award in 2012 and is currently a Professor of Art at Chicago’s […]
Chika Idu (born 1974) is an exciting artist who studied painting at the Auchi Polytechnic in Edo State from 1993-1998. He was instrumental in the creation of the Defactori Studios, a collective of dynamic new generation artists. He also created Nigeria’s first Water Colour Society of Artists (SABLES). Idu has taken part in numerous group […]
Tayo Olayode (born 1970) is one of Nigeria’s most exciting experimental artists who graduated from Ahmadu Bello University with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art, and has been a full time studio artist for sixteen years. Olayode’s oeuvre includes diverse works using a range of complex techniques and styles, setting him apart as an artist […]
Raoul Da Silva (born 1969) is an artist of Nigerian and Swiss origin. He grew up in Lagos and began his artistic journey at the Nigerian National Museum in Onikan where he attended summer art classes as a child. After his childhood schooling in Lagos he engaged in four years of an in-depth apprenticeship in […]
Polly Alakija was born in the United Kingdom in 1966 and moved to Nigeria in 1989. Between 2005 and 2011 she was based in South Africa. She now works from her studio in Lagos. Her work is included in numerous private collections in the USA, UK, France, Nigeria and South Africa and in several corporate […]
Duke Asidere (born 1961) is one of Nigeria’s most celebrated contemporary artists with a keen following internationally and in his native Nigeria. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree with first class honours in Fine Arts (painting) from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in 1988, and a Masters of Fine Arts in painting in 1990 from […]
