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Peter Uka, Lady May

Peter UkaLady May, 2024

Oil on canvas

59 x 59 in

About the artist

Peter Uka (b. 1975, Nigeria) is a painter based in Cologne, Germany. Working in oil on canvas, he builds figurative scenes from memories of his Nigerian childhood in the 1970s and 1980s, rendering the hairstyles, fashion, objects and social rituals of the period, and reflecting on the cultural links between Nigeria and Germany. Trained in classical realist painting, he was a master student of Eberhard Havekost at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, completing his studies in 2017. His work has been exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the Long Museum in Shanghai, The FLAG Art Foundation in New York, the Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, and is held in collections including the Long Museum, the Block Museum of Art, the CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, The FLAG Art Foundation and the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen. He is represented by Mariane Ibrahim.

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