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List Of Nigerian Women Artists
This is a list of women artists who were born in the Nigeria or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. A * Haneefah Adam, visual artist * Jenevieve Aken (born 1989), photographer focused on self-portraits, portrait, and documentary photos * Peju Alatise (born 1975), artist, poet, writer * Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze (born 1982), Nigerian-born British-American drawings and works on paper, she lives in Brooklyn, New York B * Olawunmi Banjo (born 1985), painter, drawing C * Sokari Douglas Camp (born 1958), Nigerian-born English sculptor * Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy (1952–2012), Nigerian-born English figurative painter * Njideka Akunyili Crosby (born 1983), Nigerian-born visual artist, lives in Los Angeles D * Nike Davies-Okundaye (born 1951), batik and adire textile designer * Ndidi Dike (born 1960), English-born Nigerian sculpture and mixed-media painter E * Afi Ekong (1930–2009), painter, fashion designer and member of the royal family of Edidem Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigeria
Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea to the south in the Atlantic Ocean. It covers an area of , and with a population of over 225 million, it is the most populous country in Africa, and the world's sixth-most populous country. Nigeria borders Niger in the north, Chad in the northeast, Cameroon in the east, and Benin in the west. Nigeria is a federal republic comprising of 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, where the capital, Abuja, is located. The largest city in Nigeria is Lagos, one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world and the second-largest in Africa. Nigeria has been home to several indigenous pre-colonial states and kingdoms since the second millennium BC, with the Nok civilization in the 15th century BC, marking the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ekene Emeka Maduka
Ekene Emeka-Maduka (born 1996) is a Canadian-Nigerian contemporary artist, whose work draws on her Nigerian heritage and is known for its use of self-portraiture. Biography Emeka-Maduka was born in Nigeria in 1996, to her interior designer mother and architect father. She was raised in Kano, Nigeria. She completed her Bachelor of Arts from University of Manitoba The University of Manitoba (U of M, UManitoba, or UM) is a Canadian public research university in the province of Manitoba. Emeka-Maduka has said that her experience living in Nigeria has a major influence on her work. Her work includes themes of displacement and reconstructing identity, and she is often the subject of her paintings. Another recurring element of her work is the eye contact her subjects hold wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adéọlá Ọlágúnjú
Adéọlá Ọlágúnjú is a Nigerians, Nigerian visual artist working with photography, video, sound and installations. Early life and education Adéọlá Ọlágúnjú grew up in Nigeria during the Military dictatorship in Nigeria, era of military dictatorship a tumultuous period that influenced her future work by teaching her, in her own words, that "rebirth comes with chaos, confusion, and destruction". Adéọlá Ọlágúnjú attended the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology in Ogbomosho, Nigeria, where she graduated in 2009 with a bachelor's degree in Fine and Applied Arts. In 2021, she earned a master's degree in Photography Studies and Practice at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany. Exhibitions Ọlágúnjú's work has been exhibited at galleries and museums including Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Bonhams in London, Rencontres d'Arles, Lagos Biennial, Arti et Amicitiae, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam Palais de Tokyo, Palais de Tokyo Pari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ebele Okoye
Ebele Okoye (born 6 October 1969, Onitsha, Anambra State) is a Nigerian-American painter and animator based in Cologne, Germany since 2000. Education Okoye studied Fine and Applied Arts (Graphic design/Illustration) at the Institute of Management and Technology in Enugu from 1985 to 1989. On arriving in Germany in 2000, she did a guest program at the University of Cologne, which she promptly left to go register in Communication Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf. From 2003 to 2004, she trained in traditional 2D cartoon animation at the Internationale Filmschule Köln. She is a fluent speaker of Igbo, English, and German. Career Ebele Okoye is active in fine and media arts and constantly shows her works in both one-man and group exhibitions (see below). She is the founder of Shrinkfish Media Lab, a production company based in Abuja. Okoye's 2015 film ''The Legacy of Rubies'' was one of the two closing films at the 2015 Silicon Valley African Film F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nnenna Okore
Nnenna Okore (born 1975 in Canberra, Australia) is an Australian-born Nigerian artist who lives and works in Chicago at North Park University, Chicago. Her largely abstract sculptural forms are inspired by richly textured forms and colors within the natural environment. Okore's work frequently uses flotsam or discarded objects to create intricate sculptures and installations through repetitive and labor-intensive processes. She learnt some of her intricate methods, including weaving, sewing, rolling, twisting and dyeing, by watching local Nigerians perform daily domestic tasks. In her more recent works, Okore uses plant-based materials (in particular, food scraps and food waste) to create large bioplastic art forms and installations. Her work has been shown in galleries and museums within and outside of the United States. She has won several international awards, including a Fulbright Scholar Award in 2012. and the Australian Creative Victoria Award in 2021. Okore is currently ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amarachi Okafor
Amarachi Okafor (born 1977) is a Nigerian artist whose works have focused on culture, religion, history, gender relations, human sexuality, and topical issues, like the spread of the Ebola virus in Africa. Early life and education Okafor was born in Umuahia. In 2002 she attended a fine arts course at the University of Nigeria and in 2007, at the same university, held a master's degree in sculpture and curatorial practice. Career Okafor was a member of El Anatsui's atelier in the late 1990s. Okafor works in painting and sculpture. She was the curator at NGA (National Gallery of Art) in Abuja Abuja () is the capital and eighth most populous city of Nigeria. Situated at the centre of the country within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), it is a planned city built mainly in the 1980s based on a master plan by International Plann ... between 2008 and 2014. In 2007 she won a Unesco-Aschberg artists' residency, and the Commonwealth Foundation ''Commonwealth Connection ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzanna Ogunjami
Suzanna Ogunjami (birth and death details unknown) was a visual artist of Igbo (Nigerian) ancestry. She emigrated from West Africa to Jamaica and again to New York City, where she was active from 1928-1934 and became the first African woman to have a solo exhibit in a commercial gallery in the United States. Early life and education Ogunjami's date of birth is unknown, and her own written accounts contrast with U.S. Census and marriage records, which state that she was born in Jamaica (Ogunjami claims Nigeria as her birthplace). At a young age, she came to Jamaica and finished her primary education, and she moved to New York City in 1921. She took courses in textiles and fine arts at Teachers College at Columbia University, and she graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1928 and a Masters of Fine Arts degree in arts education in 1929. Work and career Ogunjami expressed herself through multiple mediums, including metalwork, printmaking, and jewelry, but she is most re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temitayo Ogunbiyi
Temitayo Ogunbiyi (born 1984) is a Nigerian-based contemporary artist and curator. She is known for her exhibitions in several museums, the most popular being the playground installed at Italy's Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina in 2020, known as ''You Can Play in the Everyday, Running''. Early life and education Ogunbiyi was born in 1984 in Rochester, New York. She grew up in Gwynedd and attended Wissahickon High School in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. She earned a BA from Princeton University, New Jersey, in 2006 and later received her master's degree in art history from Columbia University, New York, in 2011. She currently lives and works in Lagos, Nigeria, and has lived there for the past nine years. Career In 2012, her art was featured at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St Louis and the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos. She exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Diasporan Art in Lagos in 2013, followed by exhibits at Tiwani Contemporary, London in 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toyin Ojih Odutola
Toyin Ojih Odutola (born 1985) is a Nigerian-American contemporary visual artist known for her vivid multimedia drawings and works on paper. Her unique style of complex mark-making and lavish compositions rethink the category and traditions of portraiture and storytelling. Ojih Odutola's artwork often investigates a variety of themes from socio-economic inequality, the legacy of colonialism, queer and gender theory, notions of blackness as a visual and social symbol, as well as experiences of migration and dislocation. Early life and education Ojih Odutola was born in 1985 in Ile-Ife, Nigeria, where both her parents were teachers. In 1990 her mother, Nelene Ojih, took Toyin and her two-year-old brother to the United States to accompany their father, Dr. Jamiu Ade Odutola, in Berkeley, California, where he was undergoing research and teaching chemistry at the university. After four years in Berkeley, the family moved to Huntsville, Alabama in 1994 where her father became an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peju Layiwola
Peju Layiwola is an art Historian and visual artist from Nigeria who works in a variety of media and genre. She is listed as a "21st Century Avant-Garde" in the book ''Art Cities of the Future'' published by Phaidon Press She is currently a Professor of Art and Art history at the University of Lagos and has been described as a "multitalented artist." Her works can be found in the collection of Microsoft Lagos, Yemisi Shyllon Museum, Pan Atlantic, Lagos and homes of private collectors such as JP and Ebun Clark and the Obi of Onitsha. Biography Born Adepeju Olowu, Layiwola is the daughter of Babatunde Olatokunbo Olowu and Princess Elizabeth Olowu (née Akenzua II, Akenzua). Her paternal grandfather was a business magnate who established the first cinema and printing press in Benin and the Delta region in the old Midwestern state. Her maternal grandfather, meanwhile, was Oba Akenzua II, king of Benin, who reigned from 1933 to 1978. She is also a cousin to DJ P Tee Money (born Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladi Kwali
Ladi Kwali, OON, MBE (c.1925– 12 August 1984) was a Nigerian potter, ceramicist and educator. Ladi Kwali was born in the village of Kwali in the Gwari region of Northern Nigeria, where pottery was an indigenous occupation among women. She learned to make pottery as a child by her aunt using the traditional method of coiling. She made large pots for use as water jars, cooking pots, bowls, and flasks from coils of clay, beaten from the inside with a flat wooden paddle. They were decorated with incised geometric and stylized figurative patterns, including scorpions, lizards, crocodiles, chameleons, snakes, birds, and fish. Her pots were noted for their beauty of form and decoration, and she was recognized regionally as a gifted and eminent potter. Several were acquired by the Emir of Abuja, Alhaji Suleiman Barau, in whose home they were seen by Michael Cardew in 1950. Early life She was born in the small village of Kwali, present Kwali Area Council of the Federal Capital Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mixed Media
In visual art, mixed media describes artwork in which more than one medium or material has been employed. Assemblages, collages, and sculpture are three common examples of art using different media. Materials used to create mixed media art include, but are not limited to, paint, cloth, paper, wood and found objects. Mixed media art is distinguished from multimedia art which combines visual art with non-visual elements, such as recorded sound, literature, drama, dance, motion graphics, music, or interactivity. History of mixed media The first modern artwork to be considered mixed media is Pablo Picasso's 1912 collage ''Still Life with Chair Caning'', which used paper, cloth, paint and rope to create a pseudo-3D effect. The influence of movements like Cubism and Dada contributed to the mixed media's growth in popularity throughout the 20th century with artists like Henri Matisse, Joseph Cornell, Jean Dubuffet, and Ellsworth Kelly adopting it. This led to further innovations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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