Download the exhibition catalogue for Tony Nsofor: Eje Ayó, my exhibition at the National Museum, Onikan, Lagos.

Anthony Nsofor’s return to Nigeria brings together paintings made across Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire, and the United States. Thirty years after his participation in 6 New Painters from Nsukka, Eje Ayọ considers a practice shaped by movement and renewed attention to the place he calls home. The exhibition asks how travel alters our recognition of what we carry. Nsofor identifies his American years as a period of heightened awareness of race and ancestry, during which the promise of

Some journeys take us away from home, and there are journeys that teach us how to see home anew. After an expedition spanning close to a decade through Lagos, Abidjan, New York, Maryland, and Alexandria, Anthony Chukwudinma Nsofor returns to Lagos, Nigeria, carrying more than the memories of places traversed. With his colors, brushes, and a mind open to the essences of people, places, and time, he returns with a body of work shaped by encounters, observations, and the transfo

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.

Katherine Howell Weingart '61 Civic Innovation Pavillion The time preparing for the relocation of my studio from the Torpedo Factory Art Center back to Lagos has distracted me from sharing the beautiful memories of an epic moment in my stay in the United States of America. Through the purchase and donation of 2 of my paintings by Steve Howell, I was connected to this outpost university that seems so much like the America of many migrants’ dreams. The purchase led to an invita

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

Trade by barter has been on my mind since I studied the lives of artists. In exchange for their artworks, they were given what they needed at the moment- be it money, food, art materials, a home, etc. The best gift you can get from me is my artwork, because it has the possibility of growing in value. Working as an artist for 28 years, I know that my artwork has been my currency in many ways. I will highlight 2 moments when I exchanged my paintings for things. Jeff, owner of

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

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

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

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

Available paintings.I hope you find something to buy. Do share with your friends and other art enthusiasts.

The poem describes the painting Currents in Heaven, Cauldrons Below. Let me explain the use of a few not-so-common words...

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

Studio closed today

I was thrilled to discover yesterday that the title of the new song by one of my favorite contemporary African artists Black Coffee is...