List of Nigerian women artists

A list of Nigerian women artists

This is a list of women artists who were born in the Nigeria or whose artworks are closely associated with that country.

A

  • Haneefah Adam, visual artist
  • Jenevieve Aken (born 1989), photographer focused on self-portraits, portrait, and documentary photos
  • Peju Alatise (born 1975), artist, poet, writer
  • Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze (born 1982), Nigerian-born British-American drawings and works on paper, she lives in Brooklyn, New York

B

  • Olawunmi Banjo (born 1985), painter, drawing

C

  • Sokari Douglas Camp (born 1958), Nigerian-born English sculptor
  • Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy (1952–2012), Nigerian-born English figurative painter
  • Njideka Akunyili Crosby (born 1983), Nigerian-born visual artist, lives in Los Angeles

D

  • Nike Davies-Okundaye (born 1951), batik and adire textile designer
  • Ndidi Dike (born 1960), English-born Nigerian sculpture and mixed-media painter

E

  • Afi Ekong (1930–2009), painter, fashion designer and member of the royal family of Edidem Bassey Eyo Epharaim Adam III
  • Oroma Elewa, visual and performance artist, writer and creative director
  • Ekene Emeka Maduka (born 1996), Canadian-Nigerian contemporary artist known for her self portraits

F

  • Modupeola Fadugba (born 1985), painter

K

  • Ayobola Kekere-Ekun (born 1993), contemporary visual artist
  • Marcia Kure (born 1970), mixed media painter and drawer
  • Ladi Kwali ( c.1925–1984), potter

L

  • Peju Layiwola (born 1967), visual artist, art historian, and professor

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