Matthew Eguavoen Nigeria, b. 1988

"If you look at my work from a distance, it looks realistic but when you come close you start to notice my brush strokes, the strokes are a representation of the subjects’ experience, and how they are affected by it. "

SHOWS & ART FAIRS

2024

– Solo Show – Ukhurhę, Afikaris, Paris

– Echoes of Transformation, Mitochondria Gallery, USA

 – Zona Marco Fair, Mexico

 

2023

– Color Coded. BODE Gallery, Berlin

– Chicago Expo, Chicago, USA

– Volta Art Fair, NY

 

2022

– Duo Show – “Smiling & Suffering” – OOA Gallery – Barcelona, Spain
– Expo Chicago – Badr El Jundi Gallery – Chicago, USA
– Solo Show – Egbé Okpá,  Afikaris – Paris, France

– Solo Show – Akate, 23. PM/AM, London
– Art Genève Art Fair – Afikaris – Genève, Switzerland
– Investec Cape Town Art Fair – Afikaris – Cape Town, South Africa

– Voyage. Nothing At All art space, Hong Kong

– Shout Plenty. Presented by African Artists’ Foundation in collaboration with Alliance
Française, Ikoyi

– Classique! Afikaris, Paris

– Voices for Love. Prior Artspace Barcelona, Spain

 

2021

– “40 under 40 Artists” – What if the World Gallery – Cape Town, South Africa
- “I No Be Gentlemen (at all o) – Ada Accra Gallery – Accra, Ghana
– “Live in color” – Mitochondria Gallery – Texas, USA
- Investec Cape Town Art Fair – Afikaris – Cape Town, South Africa

 

2020

– “Art in Medicine, Art for Mental Health” - Online Exhibition

 

2019

- “African Art Exhibition” – Art Number 23

 

RESIDENCY

2024 – Blackrock Artist-In-Residence Program, Senegal

 

CHARITY PROJECTS

Auction for Ukraine, Badr El Jundi Gallery, 2022
Autumn/Winter Auction for Hepatitis C Trust, Art on Postcard, UK, 2023

 

MUSEUM SHOW

2022 – The New African Portraiture, Shariat Collection, Kunsthalle Krems Museum, Austria

2023 – Africa Supernova, Schulting Art Collection, Kunsthal Kade Museum, Netherlands

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Perry Art Collection

Schulting Art Collection

Cmart Collection

Lenoir Art Collection