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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2025

Special Solo Feature at the Abuja Art Fair, 1.0, The Exhibition Pavilion, Abuja 

  

2022

Announcing Beauty, Mercy, Kindness, and Love, Red Door Gallery, Lagos

2021

The Colour of Our Hearts is the Colour of Our City, CCA, Lagos

2020

The Colour of Our Hearts is the Colour of Our City, Thought Pyramid Art Centre, Abuja 

 

2019

I Am the Light, a multi-dimensional public art project (taking art to new audiences) carried out in collaboration with children and teens of the Catholic Church of Assumption, at an 'alternative space' (Divine Mercy School), Asokoro, Abuja

 

2015

I Learnt This, A Public Art Intervention in 3 public locations (schools) in Jogjakarta, Indonesia. A collaborative and interactive art with the public

 

2014

Ask Yourself, A Public Art Intervention in 4 public locations in Abuja. A collaborative interactive art with the public and with other artists

2009

Seven Days Live Art, Presentation of art pieces daily, at multiple variant locations, in Dalsasen, Dale I Sunnfjord, Norway

 

Open Studio to work in Progress, Nkd Dalsasen, Dale I Sunnfjord, Norway

 

2008

Africa West, Oriel Mostyn Gallery Llandudno Wales, UK

 

2007

Europe at Financial Times, Babel Art Gallery, Trondheim. Norway

 

Open Studio, Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder, Norway

 

 

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2025

Abuja Art Fair, 1.0, The Exhibition Pavilion, Abuja

 

In Between an ‘Abuja Open House’ exhibition, The Nordic, Abuja

 

Westbund Art & Design (Fair), 2025 with ShanghART Gallery, Booth No. 1C03, West Bund International Convention & Exhibition Centre, Shanghai, China

 

2024 

All The Images Will Disappear, co-curated by Philippe Pirotte and ShanghART Gallery, ShanghART WB Central, Shanghai, China

 

Slant: Perspectives on Sculpture, a Juried exhibition of Artsy and the ISC, Gallery 14C, Jersey City, NJ, USA

 

International Sculpture Centre Exhibition/Artsy Artist Exhibition, an exhibition of Artsy and the ISC, Online

 

2023

Stones Last A Wee Bit Longer (Dusk Art Festival, 2023, The CERA Project), a touring project –Portugal, Spain, Alba-Scotland, Iceland, Nigeria

 

Krisis (Art Theorema #3), Gallerie delle Prigioni, Treviso, Italy

 

2021

The Invincible Hands, Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art, Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos

 

My Super Power, Blue Door Art Center, Yonkers, NY, USA

 

Off The Wall, Blue Door Art Center, Yonkers, NY, USA

                                   

13th Annual Juried Member Exhibition and Contest, Blue Door Art Center, Yonkers, NY, USA

 

2020

Summer Blues, Blue Door Art Center, Yonkers, NY, USA

 

2018

LineGuage: Textual Imagery/Linear Allegory, Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos

 

2017

Colourful Africa, MOESHEN contemporary art gallery, Penthouse Floor, Zen Building, Life CaAbuja

 

Nkoli Ka (Nsukka School after 5 years) - a touring exhibition-UNN, Nsukka; Abuja; Lagos

 

2015

Hacking Conflict (Equator #3), Biennale Jogjakarta, Jogjakarta, Indonesia

 

Anya Fulu Ugo, Exhibition in honour of El Anatsui & Obiora Udechukwu, University of Nigeria, Nsukka

 

2014

Nigeria / Roots, Contemporary Artists from Nigeria, Gallerie delle Prigioni, Treviso, Italy

 

National Art Competition, An African Artists Foundation exhibition. Lagos

 

Together Again, An exhibition of the National Gallery of Art, Nigeria, Kaduna

 

Playing With Chance, Showing El Anatsui archives and the works of his female mentees, Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos

 

2013

From Within, An Art Fair of the National Gallery of Art, Kaduna

 

2012

We Face Forward: Art from West Africa Today, a cultural Olympiad exhibition of the London 2012 Olympic, Manchester Art Gallery, UK

 

2010

I am Bahamian. I eat Conch Salad, an art experience/intervention with visual artists and fashion designers - The Hub Gallery, Nassau, The Bahamas

 

RAVY (Rencontres D'arts Visuels De Yaoundé), Festival. Yaoundé- Cameroun

 

2009

FIAC Alger 2009, The 1st International Festival of Contemporary Art of Algiers, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Algiers

 

International Art Expo Nigeria 2009, National Museum, Onikan, Lagos

 

2008

ARESUVA 2008, International Conference Centre, Abuja, Nigeria

 

Experimental frontiers: Society Through the Eyes of South African and Nigerian Artists, Vansa Western Cape Space, South Africa, curated by Okechukwu Nwafor

 

Art 4: Channel Four Television Corporation, London, UK

 

2007

Guest Artists’ Open Studio, Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder Trondheim, Norway

 

MFA Graduation Exhibition, Department of Fine & Applied Arts, University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN)

 

Make-Op/Zombification (Performing Anthropology) Interdisciplinary Theatre Performance, practical workshop, and presentation. Goethe-Institut Lagos, Nigeria

 

2006

20th Century Art: a Story from Nigeria, an ‘Off Show’ at Dak’Art 2006, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar-Senegal

 

2004

Afrika Heritage 2004, a Pan African Circle of Artists (PACA), Exhibition, French Cultural Centre, Enugu

 

Visual Orchestra, French Cultural Centre, Enugu

 

2003

Heritage, an FCT Council for Arts and Culture exhibition, FCT, Abuja

 

2002

Women in Art Exhibition, A National Gallery of Modern Art Exhibition, National Gallery of Modern Art, Lagos

 

Exhibition organized by Chinze Art Place, Abuja Sheraton Hotel, Abuja

 

Heritage, FCT Council for Arts and Culture, FCT Abuja

 

BA Hons. Award Exhibition, Department of Fine & Applied Arts, University of Nigeria, Nsukka,(UNN)

 

Artytude, an association of Fine Arts Students exhibition, Art Theatre, UNN

 

2001

Women in Art exhibition, FCT Council for Arts and Culture, Abuja

 

Footprints, Ana Gallery, UNN

 

 

 

RESIDENCIES

 

2015

Residency from the Yayasan Biennale Yogyakarta, Indonesia

 

2010

Popopstudios Centre for the Visual Arts, Nassau, Bahamas, funded by the Commonwealth Foundation, London

 

2009

Nkd (Nordisk Kunstnarsenter Dalsåsen), Norway, Grant & Residency from Nkd

 

2007

Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder Trondheim, Norway, Residency by Grant from the United Nations and the Trondheim Kommune

 

2004

Aina Onabolu Studios, National Gallery of Art Lagos, Nigeria, funded by the National Gallery of Art, Lagos

 

 

GRANTS, AWARDS, AND OTHER DISTINCTIONS 

 

2017

Scholarship from Klein Artist Works, Chicago, USA

 

2015

Grant from the Yayasan Biennale Yogyakarta, Indonesia

 

2014

(Jury Prize), African Artists Foundation National Art Competition

 

2012

Grant Award to graduating MA Art student, Falmouth University, UK

 

2009

Commonwealth Connections 2009 – A Commonwealth Foundation Award for artistic excellence

 

2008

ARESUVA, an exhibition and Grant award from the National Gallery of Art (Nigeria), for the first ‘African Regional Summit and Exhibition on Visual Arts’  (ARESUVA) ’08, Abuja-Nigeria

 

2007

UNESCO Aschberg artists award for artistic excellence in Art

PUBLICATIONS

 

2022

The Colour of our Hearts is the Colour of our City- Lagos City, a book documenting the same exhibition

 

2021

Ask Yourself, a book based on the 2014 project Ask Yourself [see Independent Curatorial Projects]

 

2020

The Colour of our Hearts is the Colour of our City- Abuja City, a book documenting the same exhibition

 

2019

I Learnt This Film, a documentary based on the 2015 project I Learnt This [see Individual Exhibitions]

 

Ask Yourself Film, a documentary based on the 2014 project Ask Yourself [see Independent Curatorial Projects]

 

2012

I am Bahamian. I eat Conch Salad, a book documenting the exhibition/art Intervention (featuring an essay 'Questioning the Canon: Art and the Museum’s Social Responsibility' by Frank Ugiomoh)

 

EDUCATION

2012     M.A. Falmouth University, UK (Curatorial Practice) 2012

200      M.F.A. University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria (Sculpture) 2006

2002    B.A. University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria (Painting) 2002

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