Contemporary artist set to hold first solo exhibition in over 10 years

Contemporary artist, Victor Ekpuk is set to host his solo exhibition this April.

The exhibition titled, Coming Home will hold from April 9th through to April 30th at the Renault Showroom, Victoria Island.

This will be Ekpuk's first major solo exhibition in over a decade, and comes after his four month residency with the Arthouse Foundation in 2015.

The exhibition features his newest project using the city of Lagos as inspiration, and is a departure from his normative practice.

Ekpuk’s works in the exhibition experiment with three-dimensional forms, adopting the human head as a symbol for the physical and psychological experiences of daily life in Lagos.

Ekpuk is a Nigerian-born artist based in Washington, DC who came to prominence through his paintings and drawings which reflect indigenous African philosophies of the Nsibidi and Uli art forms.

His work frequently explores the human condition in society, drawing upon a wide spectrum of meaning that is rooted in African and global contemporary art discourses.

Ekpuk has worked as a cartoonist for Daily Times in the past, and his work has been exhibited in acclaimed international venues including the Smithsonian Institution Washington DC, the New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York), the Dakar Biennale (Senegal) amongst other places.