Bola Asiru is the founder of Red Door Gallery in Lagos, as well as a keen art collector and patron of contemporary African art. Alongside his preoccupation supporting and mentoring young Nigerian artists, he serves as the principal for MasterCard Advisors, Middle East & Africa with a primary focus on...
Independent curator and arts advisor Lucy Macgarry is the co-director of Latitudes Online: a new marketplace for contemporary art from Africa. She holds a Master of fine art from WITS, a Bachelor of Commerce honours in business management from UCT, and a Bachelor of Arts in visual studies from UCT....
South African-based American artist, Gary Stephens works in a variety of media including painting, drawing, printmaking, and photography. He portrays women in head scarves or men in hats to focus attention on the power of these everyday symbols of African life, and to capture a sense of contemporary African style and...
In the sixth part of our continuing series on artists in the diaspora who promote Black identity and pride through their work, we present emerging Canadian artist Sara Golish. Previous features include Philippe Attie, Tim Okamura, T.S Abe, Patrick Earl Hammie and Mario Henrique. Golish specialises in figurative drawing and...
Charles Okafor is recognised as one of the veteran actors in the Nollywood film industry. In 1996, he appeared in his first movie Domitilla and in 1999 rose to fame after starring in the blockbuster movie End of the Wicked. Since then, Okafor has won many African movie awards including...
Since inception in 2003, Stevenson gallery has morphed from Michael Stevenson to Brodie Stevenson, and now has two galleries in Cape Town and Johannesburg that focus on the work of artists from the region. The gallery also has an extensive publications programme and an international exhibition rooster that often brings...
Born in Nigeria, ruby onyinyechi amanze grew up in the United Kingdom before moving to the United States where she received her BFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan. amanze was also awarded a 2012-2013 Fulbright Scholarship to...
New York-based, Nigerian self-taught photographer Oye Diran began his career in 2010 covering events, under his first company, FE Photography. He taught himself the basics by reading books on photography, watching how-to videos and through experience over time. During his stint as an event photographer, Diran gained the ability to...
Dedicated to the life and seminal work of the celebrated fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent (YSL), the Museé Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech was unveiled last year. It proudly houses a collection of 5,000 items of clothing, 15,000 haute couture accessories and tens of thousands of sketches and art objects. Years...
Kunle Adegborioye’s work focuses on the profound changes he has witnessed in Nigerian society, both in Lagos and his home city of Ibadan. Over the years, he has come to admire artists like Robert Raushenberg, Kolade Oshinowo, David Dale, Abiodun Olaku and Gani Odutokun. These artists have influenced his work...
Florine Demosthene was born in the United States and raised between Port-au-Prince, Haiti and New York. She has spent the past four years living and working across Africa. Demosthene explores themes surrounding race and gender and uses her own identity to re-evaluate the socio-political structures and conditions that surround Black...
Contemporary Ghanaian artist Ferguson Amo works across a variety of forms including drawing, embroidery, photography, sculpture and mixed media. His work aims to encourage and strengthen the bond of solidarity among Africans living on the continent and in diaspora. In this interview with Omenka, he talks about growing up in...
