Originality is a myth I no longer chase. Everything I create is a response to life as it unfolds around and within me. My work rises from lived realities, from assumptions, from fragments of memory that surface unrestrained. Often, my unconscious and subconscious do the choosing before I am even aware. They guide my hands, my gestures, my mark-making. Each piece is shaped by more than the present- it carries the sediments of what has been and the longing for what might come.

Here’s the invite to my farewell party, Designed by Courtney Kolker The Torpedo Factory Artists Association is throwing a party to bid...

When I think of community and the celebration that is life, I think of my village, Oguta. When I think of sinuous lines, I

Get the catalog of my recent paintings here.

When the art department of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, was founded in 1961, one of its two pioneer teachers was Akinola Lasekan (1916-1974), an established painter who was perhaps better known as the nationalist cartoonist, Lash, whose cartoons appeared for some two decades in the West African Pilot (a newspaper publication). Why none of the first three sets of art graduates (1965, 1966, 1967) specialized in painting despite the presence of Lasekan, and later, in 1962/

I have participated in 2 group exhibitions and my first solo exhibition here in the US! To add to the laurels, the Grinnell College Museum o

In transit himself, Chukwudinma watches people move, individually and en masse, willingly and forced, and he divines their spaces and places

Amy and her curator, Jordan, chose the title for the exhibition. That title became a magnet, drawing people to the exhibition. Some visitors

Observing new cultures, and sharing my own culture is the intent in my work. The 2-dimensional canvas becomes a performative space for danci

PANGEA, an exhibition that forms a metaphorical supercontinent of artistic voices spanning four major continents: Africa, Europe, North Amer

You are invited to an upcoming group exhibition in New York.

Bright colors bouncing off the canvas, varying-sized brushstrokes and shapes, images meant to draw you into stories of migration, space and

Working at the Torpedo Factory Art Center offers artists the possibility of sharing- artists mixing with throngs of tourists and art lovers

I am excited to announce this 2-day event coming up at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art! I will be adding my voice to the conv

the energy of the pieces- then the people who floated about as though enchanted. There was enough variety to entertain the traditional and

So, I love dancing. And my wife is a deejay. Logical. You are invited to her dance event the Bridgerton Kizomba Experience. The video below

Click on this link to my YouTube channel and watch this short of masquerades of Oguta Ameshi performing- https://youtu.be/cgVcGzJHY-4.

Since inception, the University of Nigeria Nsukka has led in forming a contextual system for presenting Contemporary Nigerian art and...

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Some time ago, I started traveling to discover other African nations. On one border crossing from Nigeria to the Benin Republic, I bought...