"Oliver Okolo has emerged as one of the most exciting artists working out of Nigeria today and is a central figure in a new vanguard whose portrayal of Black people in confident and assertive gaze, challenges and dismantles negative racial constructs and knowledge systems."
Oliver Enwonwu,
Art writer
SHOWS & ART FAIRS
2023
– Group Show "Reviving the Spirit ! Who said figurative African art is dead ?" – OOA GALLERY – Barcelona, Spain
– Art Madrid – OOA GALLERY - Madrid, Spain.
2022
– The frame remains the same – Arcadia contemporary gallery – New York.
– Art Paris, Gallery1957 – Paris, France.
2021
– Solo Show – "I forgot to tell you, Now listen" – Gallery 1957 – Accra Ghana.
– "Stop, Listen" – CFHILL Art space – Stockholm, Sweden.
– Art Dubai, Gallery1957 – UAE
– 1-54 Art fair New York, Gallery1957 – New York, USA
2020
– Collective reflections: contemporary African and diasporic expression of a new vanguard – Gallery 1957 – Accra. Curated by Danny Dunson.
2019
– Art for development By Action Aid Nigeria.
2018
– Solo Show – "Shades, exhibition of drawings" – The cube café – Abuja. Nigeria.
– Art in my City – Exhibition by British council – Abuja, Nigeria.
2016
– Life in my City Art Festival – Enugu, Nigeria.
Residencies & Commissions
2021
– Private Art commission by Brandan Price (private collector)