Born in 1994, Ekene Stanley Emecheta is a self-taught artist, living and working in Lagos.
The artist's oeuvre is characterised by a distinctive use of color and compositional technique and his iconography of figures drawn from both fantasy, history and his private world. Each canvas starts with the intentional elimination of the protagonist’s skin color, over which Emecheta frames the subject’s posture and characteristics. Diverting the attention away from the skin color, he draws our focus to the figure itself and its surroundings broadening the interpretation and inviting the viewer to become physically and emotionally invested in the subject’s story, almost revealing the aura of the person portrayed.
Selected Exhibitions:
2022
The Armory Show, The Breeder Gallery, New York, US
Art Basel, The Breeder Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
Felix Art Fair, The Breeder Gallery, Los Angeles, US
2021
Family Ties, Daniel Benjamin Gallery, London, UK (SOLO)
Liste, The Breeder Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
Frieze, The Breeder Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Truthful Waters, The Breeder Gallery, Athens, Greece (SOLO)
The Armory Show, The Breeder Gallery, New York, US (Online)
Frieze NY, The Breeder Gallery, New York, US (Online)
FIAC Ovr, The Breeder Gallery, Paris, France (Online)
Group exhibition, Urevbu Contemporary gallery, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
2020
Black Voices: Friend of my Mind, Ross-Sutton gallery, New York, USA.
Ways of Protest, Elysium gallery, Wales, Swansea, UK
2019
The E.art.h Exhibition, Berj Art Gallery, Labon, Ghana
Residencies:
2020
Residency, Lagos, Nigeria.
AndOrange Residency
Selected publications:
Frieze Magazine, Exhibition Review,Truthful Waters, 25 Aug 2021
Education:
2010-2015
Madonna University, Enugu, Nigeria