Oliver Enwonwu is founder and Editor-in-Chief of Omenka magazine, Director, Omenka Gallery and Chief Executive, Revilo. He holds a first degree in Biochemistry, advanced diploma in Exploration Geophysics (distinction), Post Graduate Diplomas in Applied Geophysics and Visual Art (distinction) and a Masters in Art History, all from the University of Lagos. He is the founder, Executive Director, and trustee of The Ben Enwonwu Foundation. He also sits on the board of several organizations including the National Gallery of Art, Nigeria and the Reproduction Rights Society of Nigeria. Enwonwu is also president of both the Society of Nigerian Artists and the Alliance of Nigerian Art Galleries.
Jeanne Mercier is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Afrique in visu platform (which has published more than 1,000 articles, staged several exhibitions in Europe and Africa, and organised photography workshops with...
Nantume Violet is a graduate of the Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Arts, Makerere University where she majored in jewellery making and Ugandan contemporary art history. She is...
Mikhaile Solomon is a graduate of the Goldman Sach’s 10,000 Small Businesses Program, and a member of Leadership Florida and Miami’s Next Leaders. In 2013, she established Prizm Art Fair...
Oliver Okolo has emerged as one of the most exciting artists working out of Nigeria today and is a central figure in a new vanguard whose portrayal of Black people...
Tokini Peterside holds a law degree from the London School of Economics, in addition to a solicitors legal practice course certificate from the College of Law (UK), an MBA from...
Touria El Glaoui is the founding director of 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair. Held annually in London, New York and Marrakech, it is a sustainable platform dedicated to contemporary art from Africa...
In many ways, leading contemporary artist Alimi Adewale’s forthcoming solo exhibition Changing Faces: New Frontiers in Figurative Art at Retro Africa in Abuja brings to full flowering several stylistic strains...
From painting, sewing to drawings and sculptures, Alioune Diouf’s work is multifaceted and populated by interwoven characters, animals, and cosmic and floral elements. As a self-taught artist, he has successfully...
Ransome Stanley employs collages in reflecting on colonial clichés of exoticism and images of Africa rooted in Western concepts of rusticness and innocence. He creates planar pictorial spaces whose stark...
“I have a strong burden to create art that speaks, a craving that pushes me to depict untold hardship and pains, as well as mayhem and chaos happening around the...