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Black-and-yellow illustration of CMS Cathedral in Lagos with its clock tower against a large yellow sun; a man in a dark suit walks past taxis and a bus stop sketched in yellow line.

Curator's Note

In Lagos, CMS is as much a direction as a building. Anth Ezeokoye gives the church its place in Made in Lagos. It is a series made to prese…

Yoruba

CMS Church, Lagos

Anthony EzeokoyeAnthony E.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Illustration of a hunched young man in a dark hoodie hugging himself, head bowed and trailing dark smoke with embers, as many hands reach toward him from a red sky; pale gold light at right.

STU. 19/20

Curator's Note

Precious Emeka Anih paints pressure from every side: a young man doubled over as hands reach in from a burning sky, his creative fire burni…

Igbo

Psalm 12

Precious Emeka AnihPrecious E. A.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Abstract geometric pattern on a white ground: a rectangular grid of squares filled with circles, rings, triangles and quarter-circles in sky blue, navy, red, yellow and black.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

Look long enough and the noise resolves into order: the whole field is built to read the same upside down. Anth Ezeokoye's training as an a…

Igbo

Chill Vibes

Anthony EzeokoyeAnthony E.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Caricature of the Nigerian rapper Phyno with a full beard, purple hoodie and cap, hands clasped, glancing to the side.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

An homage to the rapper who made Igbo sound like the obvious choice. Clement Obioha exaggerates the beard and the bulk and leaves the side-…

Igbo

Phyno

Chibuike Clement ObiohaChibuike C. O.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Pencil-sketched portrait of a young man with a high-top haircut, chin raised and eyes glancing to the side, a vertical band of ochre light across his face, on a grey background.

COLL. 30/30

Curator's Note

Everyone has made this face, and everyone has received it. Ekundayo leaves the young man in loose pencil and spends his only paint on a ban…

Yoruba

Huh!

Yr. 2022

Adeyemo EkundayoAdeyemo E.

From$250· Collector Edition· Coll. Ed.

Monochrome portrait of a young Black man, eyes closed, wearing a gold crown among grey roses, with gold marks beneath one eye and a gold line down his lips and chin.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

The centrepiece of Toni Kuyinu's royal trio, and the only face that meets us head-on, yet his eyes are closed. Nothing is being claimed or …

Yoruba

Crown

Toni KuyinuToni K.

From$45· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Digital artwork of a frontal head and neck covered in black and white marbling, with teal, pink and pale blue lilies behind it and a black sphere beside the cheek, on a deep violet background.

COLL. 30/30

Curator's Note

The face is all there, looking straight at us, and still it nearly vanishes. Black and white marbling runs across the features until skin b…

Undeclared

Camouflage

Yr. 2023

Mayowa Enoch AiyedogbonMayowa E. A.

From$250· Collector Edition· Coll. Ed.

COLL. 30/30

Curator's Note

Ai_mayor reduces the person to a black outline, eyes closed, and still makes it the calmest thing in the frame. Flowers, stripes and a purp…

Yoruba

Stainless

Mayowa Enoch AiyedogbonMayowa E. A.

From$250· Collector Edition· Coll. Ed.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

A homage in the caricaturist's language: Fela at the keys, eyes shut, smoke curling, a spotlight from one side and fire rising on the other…

Inspired by Fela Kuti and Afrobeat

Fela Kuti

Yr. 2017

Chibuike Clement ObiohaChibuike C. O.

From$45· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Photograph of a person in a pearl-studded crown and dark flared robe, looking over the shoulder with light-catching eyes, backlit in yellow-gold light, blue-white smoke rising around the robe.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

Omotayo Tajudeen lights his sitter from behind until the gold seems to come from the figure itself. The crown is beaded, the robe sweeps ou…

Yoruba

Idan

Yr. 2022

Omotayo TajudeenOmotayo T.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Surreal portrait of a figure with locs and folded arms in a black sweater, face blacked out except silver eyes and lips, a red and blue betta fish on the shoulder, on a yellow-to-pink gradient.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

The face is filled with black, leaving only silver eyes and lips, so the person stays unnamed. The one bright, living thing is a red and bl…

Yoruba

Somebody

Mayowa Enoch AiyedogbonMayowa E. A.

From$45· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Digital illustration of a bearded man in a hoodie, cap and plaid jacket on a wooden stool, reading a book titled Na Man You Be, a yellow smiley card over his face, on a blue ground.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

Look past the outfit to the face, or what replaces it. A yellow card with a drawn-on smile is stuck over a man reading his own rulebook. St…

Edo/Benin

Na Man You Be

Yr. 2022

Joshua AdegboyeJoshua A.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Find a work, an artist, a tradition

CMS Church, Lagos

Psalm 12

Chill Vibes

Phyno

Huh!

Crown

Camouflage

Stainless

Fela Kuti

Idan

Somebody

Na Man You Be