Chukwumereogo (b. Nnenna Chimereogo Okeke) is a visual artist who explores themes on gender and culture, and uses them as a metaphor in assessing broader issues on socioeconomic and political inequality. She mostly likens human forms to landscapes in textured drawings against muted palettes. By using this style of drawing, she criticizes the cruel imbalance that is found when the dominant eclipses the minority. She works with acrylic, charcoal and pastel, and is exploring other media.
Uwadinma studied art at the University of Port Harcourt graduating with a BA and an MA in 2005and 2013 respectively. Uwadinma has exhibited extensively in several group exhibitions and has had four solo exhibitions: Re(de)fined, at Urevbu Contemporary, Memphis, USA, 2023; The Afterlife of Forgetting, at Boys’ Quarters Project Space, Port Harcourt, 2017; Erasure, at Boys’ Quarters Project Space, Port Harcourt, 2014; and Aphorism, at Mydrim Gallery, Lagos in 2013. Recent group exhibitions include Celebrons l’Afrique (Celebrating Africa), Les Arts du Soleil, Dakar, 2023; Engaging Space and Its Metaphors, PACA DAK’ART OFF, 2022; The Hamptons Fine Art Fair, New York, 2021; Africa on My Mind, Urevbu Contemporary, Memphis, 2021; Lets Connect, Mariam Cramer Projects, Amsterdam, 2021; Be Real Black for Me, Madlozi Gallery, South Africa, 2020; Of Things not Seen, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lagos, 2019; a specially curated installation for Art X Lagos, 2017; The Pineapple Show at Tiwani Contemporary, London, 2016; and Imago Mundi: Map of the New Art, Venice, 2015.
He lives and works in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
Born on August 21, 1947, at Zinvie, Fadairo is a Beninese master respected in the contemporary African art scene and indeed the world. He had a traditional education at the Art School in Amsterdam, returned soon after, and developed a unique language in trans materiality and texture. Fadairo’s oeuvre encompasses painting, installation, sculpture, and works in mixed media. He seeks to understand the media he employs, which range from the traditional to the highly unorthodox including chalks and natural pigments. His 3-dimensional figures are imaginative, emotive, and charged with immediacy. Fadairo’s perfect control of detail emerges and develops as the artist breathes life into various symbols and compelling themes. Fadairo’s work has been exhibited across Europe and Asia
Obi Nwaegbe is a visual artist, entrepreneur and executive director of Artstier Company Limited, based in Abuja & Lagos.
Born on the 17th of March 1974 in the town of Agwe-Aboh, Delta state, Nigeria, Uche Uzorka’s practice incorporates painting, collage, cutting and pasting, charcoal, and ink drawing. In 2011, Uche Uzorka went on to win first place in the Nigerian National Art competition for his collaboration with Chike Obeagu. His first solo exhibition, Uche Uzorka: The Organic show took place at the Goethe- Institut Nigeria in collaboration with African Artists Foundation, while his second solo: Line. Sign. Symbol, took place at the African Artists Foundation, Lagos.
Uzorka has engaged studio and research residencies at the African Artists Foundation The AF Lagos 2011-2012, The African Art archive of the Iwalewa Haus Bayreuth Germany 2014 and 2015, and Savvy Contemporary, Berlin Germany 2014.