Signature African Art

Current

In Our Days
1 - 30 Sep 2021 Signature African Art announces a new solo exhibition, In Our Days by celebrated Nigerian artist Oluwole Omofemi. Entitled In Our Days, the exhibition will be arranged across the gallery’s basement and ground floors, and is formed of 15 large-scale portraits of women and children, as well as a number of... Read more

Past

Makeovenice
A Transdimensional Vision 26 Jun - 1 Sep 2021 Opedun has painted on few 'Venetian' in his cityscapes. He has married different neighbourhoods on these canvases. The intensity of his artistic desires is seen in all the paintings. All the city spaces have serious architectural details, pillars, balconies and windows. The intricate designs are not ignored. The colours are... Read more

A History Untold
Presented by Maro Itoje 20 May - 19 Jun 2021 A strong advocate for education and the Black Curriculum, the theme of the exhibition was conceptualised by Itoje and inspired by his personal experience of schooling on Black history. A History Untold features new work by six African and Diaspora artists. These works celebrate Black history and the contributions Black... Read more

Say My Name
Group Exhibition, presented by Ava DuVernay 27 Oct - 24 Dec 2020 Signature African Art presents Say My Name, two exhibitions of works curated
by Khalil Akar and presented by acclaimed filmmaker Ava DuVernay in London from 27 October 2020 and in Los Angeles in February 2021. Say My Name resonates with the Black Lives Matter movement through new works which celebrate influential figures and moments in Black history in the UK and the USA. The exhibitions coincide with Black History Month in both countries. Read more

Endless Forms
Group Exhibition 9 Jul - 28 Aug 2020 This exhibition aims to portray ‘endless forms’ starting with the purest of forms – the human body, whilst incorporating forms with an abstract nature. Read more

Diary of the iron bender
Steve Ekpenisi solo exhibition 14 - 24 Mar 2020 The happenings are daily; you have to work, really bend iron to live, to justify your artistic value and worth. It is not for nothing that the studio artists keep busy all the time, creating varieties of works. No day should pass by without you producing at least one work,... Read more

The Way We Were
Oluwole Omofemi solo exhibition 12 Mar - 9 Apr 2020 Entitled The Way We Were, the exhibition is a celebration of Afrocentric pride, as well as reflection on the post-colonial era. The British artist Claudette Johnson has talked of the ‘fiction of blackness’ that colonialism left in its wake and of the need for people to assert their identity through their own stories. Omofemi embraces this idea, focussing on the importance of hair amongst black
communities. Read more

Values
Samson Akinnire Solo Exhibition 16 - 24 Nov 2019 What is essential to perceiving this world? What lies directly before our eyes, yet explicitly elude us? How can something be completely trash at the same time intimately familiar? What values fasten transcends chasm of images? We somehow manage to execute these great leaps when we participate in the witnessing... Read more

Online

Human Emotion
Online Exhibition 26 Feb - 24 Mar 2021 It is a hybrid of the human figure which investigates and recognises social media symbols that represent various human emotions, sometimes disfigured forms – albeit with recognisable features. Read more

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