LINEISM: Where Lines Tell Stories — Nii Teiko Steps Into His First Solo Exhibition

A single line, drawn slowly enough, can hold a memory. That’s the premise Ghanaian visual artist Nii Teiko has spent years quietly building his practice around, and this October, he’s finally opening the door to it.

Ayotunde Afolayan to Present "Amongst" at Atlanta Art Fair 2026

Nigerian artist Ayotunde Afolayan will bring his painting, Amongst, to the 2026 Atlanta Art Fair, taking place October 1–4 at Pullman Yards. Paul Conliffe will present the work at Booth D23.

Okechukwu Uwaezuoke's "Shades of Hope" Captures How Artists Across Three Continents Survived COVID-19

By Udemma Chukwuma 

A striking new book chronicling how visual artists in Nigeria, Europe and the United States weathered the COVID-19 pandemic has officially launched on Amazon, offering readers an intimate alternative to the statistics and headlines that once defined the crisis.

Shades of Hope: Covid Reminiscences Through Art, written by veteran arts writer and longtime THISDAY arts editor Okechukwu Uwaezuoke and published by Nostalgiamedia, went on sale Tuesday, September 8. Spanning 152 pages, the book gathers first-person reflections from artists who found themselves scattered, stranded and searching for meaning when the world shut its doors.

Dodd Brown Makes Beauty From What Remains

By Udemma Chukwuma 

There is a moment, standing before a painting by Dodd Brown Nkpa, when the eye stops trying to resolve the figure into something familiar and instead begins to read it the way one reads a piece of cloth, for pattern, seam, and texture rather than likeness. This is no accident. Nkpa, a Nigerian mixed-media artist born in Jos and raised in Port Harcourt, has developed a visual language in which the human body is less a subject to be faithfully depicted than a surface to be constructed, stitched together, quite literally in places, from paint, pastel, and discarded Ankara fabric. His interest, as he puts it, lies in “the possibilities that exist beyond conventional materials.”

Beneath the Surface: Chika Idu's "Pure Water" Opens at ARAMI in Lagos

By Udemma Chukwuma

Today, a new exhibition opens above the waters of Lagos titled Pure Water, a solo show of about 30 paintings and portraits by Nigerian artist Chika Idu, at ARAMI Lagos, Nigeria, a fine-dining restaurant with rooftop views stretching across the Atlantic and the Lagos Lagoon. Presented by SMO Contemporary Art and ARAMI, the exhibition runs through November 30, 2026.