21st-century Nigerian painters

The list 21st-century Nigerian painters includes Chike Aniakor, Uche Okeke, Ada Udechukwu, Bruce Onobrakpeya and Toyin Odutola. The list consists of 37 members.

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Chike Aniakor

Nigerian painter

Overview: Chike Aniakor (born 1939) is a Nigerian painter. A native of Abatete, Aniakor received his first artistic training at Ahmadu Bello University, receiving his master's degree in 1974. He received a doctorate ...

Date of birth: 1939

Age: 86

Nationality: Nigerian

Occupation: Painter

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20th-century Nigerian painters 12T

Artists from Anambra State 2T

Indiana University Bloomington alumni 291T
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Chris Ofili

British artist

Overview: Christopher Ofili, CBE (born 10 October 1968) is a British Turner Prize-winning painter who is best known for his paintings incorporating elephant dung. He was one of the Young British Artists. Since 2005 ...

Date of birth: 10 October 1968

Age: 56

Nationality: Nigerian

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Male

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21st-century male artists 1,869T

British male painters 487T

English contemporary artists 388T
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Uche Okeke

Nigerian artist

Overview: Christopher Uchefuna Okeke (30 April 1933 – 5 January 2016), known as Uche Okeke, was a modern Nigerian artist.

Date of birth: 1 April 1933

Date of death: 5 January 2016

Age: 82 (age at death)

Nationality: Nigerian

Occupation: Painter

Gender: Male

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Nigerian illustrators 4T

2016 deaths 9,847T

20th-century Nigerian painters 12T
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Ebele Okoye

German artist

Overview: Ebele Okoye (born October 6, 1969, Onitsha, Anambra State) is a Nigerian-American painter and animator, resident in Cologne, Germany, since the year 2000.

Date of birth: 6 October 1969

Age: 55

Nationality: Nigerian

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Female

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Nigerian women painters 4T

Nigerian animated film producers 1T

Nigerian animated film directors 1T
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Oluwole Omofemi

Nigerian painter and artist

Overview: Oluwole Omofemi (born Godwin Oluwole Omofemi on 2 June 1988) is a Nigerian artist and curator based in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. He is mostly known for painting the last commissioned painting of Queen ...

Date of birth: 2 June 1988

Age: 37

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Yoruba artists 43T

People from Edo State 94T

Nigerian artists 91T
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Nkiru Nzegwu

Nigerian philosopher and painter

Overview: Nkiru Nzegwu (born March 22, 1954) is a Nigerian philosopher, painter, author, curator and art historian. She is Distinguished Professor for Research at State University of New York at Binghamton.

Date of birth: 22 March 1954

Age: 71

Nationality: Nigerian

Occupation: Philosopher

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Kelechi Amadi-Obi

Nigerian artist

Overview: Kelechi Amadi-Obi (born December 29, 1969) is a Nigerian creative photographer, painter, artist and the publisher of Mania Magazine. His work in photography and visual art has earned him international ...

Date of birth: 29 December 1969

Age: 55

Nationality: Nigerian

Occupation: Photographer

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21st-century photographers 110T

Government College Umuahia alumni 38T

Nigerian photographers 30T
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Dele Jegede

Nigerian-American painter

Overview: Dele Jegede (stylized as dele jegede) is a Nigerian-American painter, art historian, cartoonist, curator, art critic, art administrator, and teacher. Jegede was a Senior Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Sm ...

Nationality: Nigerian

Occupation: Cartoonist

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Ufuoma Onobrakpeya

Nigerian painter, printmaker and academic

Overview: Ufuoma Isioro Onobrakpeya (born February 21, 1971 in Lagos, Nigeria) is a Nigerian painter, printmaker and teacher of art. Ufuoma is a 3rd generation artist, whose grandfather Obi Omonedo Onobrakpeya was ...

Date of birth: 21 February 1971

Age: 54

Nationality: Nigerian

Occupation: Painter

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20th-century Nigerian painters 12T

Nigerian printmakers 4T

University of Benin alumni 47T
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Bruce Onobrakpeya

Nigerian artist

Overview: Bruce Obomeyoma Onobrakpeya (born 30 August 1932) is a Nigerian printmaker, painter and sculptor. He has exhibited at the Tate Modern in London, the National Museum of African Art of the Smithsonian I ...

Date of birth: 30 August 1932

Age: 92

Nationality: Nigerian

Occupation: Artist

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Recipients of the Nigerian National Order of Merit Award 24T

20th-century Nigerian painters 12T

Members of the Order of the Niger 15T
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Toyin Odutola

Nigerian artist

Overview: Toyin Ojih Odutola (born 1985) is an Nigerian-American contemporary visual artist known for her vivid multimedia drawings and works on paper. Ojih Odutola produces multimedia drawings that engage in the ...

Date of birth: 1985

Age: 40

Nationality: Nigerian

Occupation: Painter

Gender: Female

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Yoruba women artists 8T

Nigerian women painters 4T

21st-century Nigerian artists 14T
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Marcia Kure

Nigerian artist

Overview: Marcia Kure (born 1970) is an American-based Nigerian artist and member of the University of Nigeria-based Nsukka School known primarily for her mixed media paintings and drawings that engage with pos ...

Date of birth: 1970

Age: 55

Nationality: Nigerian

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Female

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Nigerian women painters 4T

People from Kano 69T

Nigerian painters 28T
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George Edozie

Nigerian painter (b. 1972)

Overview: George Edozie is a Nigerian painter.

Nationality: Nigerian

Occupation: Artist

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Artists from Lagos 21T

Year of birth missing (living people) 37,022T

Nigerian painters 23T
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Lemi Ghariokwu

Nigerian artist (born 1955)

Overview: Lemi Ghariokwu (born Emmanuel Sunday; 26 December 1955), also known simply as Lemi, is a Nigerian artist, illustrator and designer who is most renowned for providing many of the original cover images for ...

Date of birth: 26 December 1955

Age: 69

Nationality: Nigerian

Occupation: Artist

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Nigerian illustrators 2T

Fela Kuti 14T

Nigerian graphic designers 2T
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Tony Nsofor

Nigerian painter

Overview: Tony Nsofor is a Nigerian painter.

Nationality: Nigerian

Occupation: Artist

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Artists from Lagos 21T

Nigerian painters 23T

People from Lagos 413T
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Twins Seven Seven

Nigerian artist

Overview: Twins Seven Seven, born Omoba Taiwo Olaniyi Oyewale-Toyeje Oyelale Osuntoki (3 May 1944 – 16 June 2011) in Ogidi, Kogi State, Nigeria, was a Nigerian painter, sculptor and musician. He was an itinerant ...

Date of birth: 3 May 1944

Date of death: 16 June 2011

Age: 67 (age at death)

Nationality: Nigerian

Occupation: Artist

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20th-century Nigerian painters 12T

Yoruba artists 39T

Osogbo School 4T
17.

Obiora Udechukwu

Nigerian painter

Overview: Obiora Udechukwu (born 1946) is a Nigerian painter and poet.

Date of birth: 1946

Age: 79

Nationality: Nigerian

Occupation: Painter

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Artists from Onitsha 4T

Nigerian painters 28T

Igbo painters 7T
18.

Tayo Adenaike

Nigerian painter

Overview: Tayo Adenaike was born in 1954 and he is currently living in Nigeria, he is a Nigerian painter.

Date of birth: 1954

Age: 71

Nationality: Nigerian

Occupation: Painter

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20th-century Nigerian painters 12T

Yoruba artists 41T

Nigerian painters 28T
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Ada Udechukwu

Nigerian artist and poet

Overview: Ada Udechukwu (born 1960) is a Nigerian artist and poet associated with the Nsukka group.

Date of birth: 1960

Age: 65

Nationality: Nigerian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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21st-century Nigerian poets 35T

20th-century Nigerian poets 32T

20th-century Nigerian painters 12T
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Ebenezer Akinola

Nigerian artist and curator

Overview: Ebenezer Samuel Akinola (born 1 December 1968), is a Nigerian artist and curator known for his work in portraiture, figurative and abstract African art. He is mostly known for his commissioned paintings ...

Date of birth: 1 December 1968

Age: 56

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