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This presentation features a selection of oil paintings, acrylics, watercolours and drawings by Obiora Udechukwu
from the 1960s-1990s. The project is included in Frieze Masters’ Spotlight, featuring pioneering artists of the
twentieth century.

Obiora Udechukwu (b. 1946) is one of Nigeria’s most influential artists and poets and a leading figure of Nigeria’s
Nsukka school. His artistic career began in the late 1960s at the dawn of the Nigerian Civil War. Part of the second
wave of modern artists at Nigerian universities after independence, Udechukwu studied art at the University of
Nigeria, Nsukka …