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Co-Curator: Table of Paradox Centre for Contemporary Art Lagos (CCA), October 1st  – 31st , 2021.

Co-Curator: Table of Paradox Centre for Contemporary Art Lagos (CCA), October 1st – 31st , 2021.

by Admin | Aug 8, 2025 | Exhibitions

Table of Paradox, a debut solo exhibition by Peter Okotor. Comprising three distinct parts, this new body of work takes an introspective look at the history of Nigeria since the attainment of self- rule, and metaphorically unravels how her historic past, embodied by...
Curatorial Assistant, The Other Room and Speaking for Myself A podcast Series  Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos, 8th  December – 31st  January, 2022

Curatorial Assistant, The Other Room and Speaking for Myself A podcast Series Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos, 8th December – 31st January, 2022

by Admin | Aug 8, 2025 | Portfolio

‘The Other room’ is an interactive exhibition that uses visuals, sound and performance to speak to the different ways in which womxn artists are reconfiguring womanhood in relation to their personal and cultural experiences.  In fact, by offering contextualized and...
Project Lead: Fragile (a traveling exhibition) Centre for Contemporary Art Lagos (CCA), May 28, 2022 – July 10, 2022

Project Lead: Fragile (a traveling exhibition) Centre for Contemporary Art Lagos (CCA), May 28, 2022 – July 10, 2022

by Admin | Aug 8, 2025 | Portfolio

“What I find most appealing in people is how they are aware of their own fragility and yet are still strong and independent beings. I want to communicate this complexity in its entirety, that lack of a singular reading, and to channel the multi-layered character and...
Co-Curator, Look Forward to Look Back: CCA, LAGOS AT 15  Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos, December, 2022

Co-Curator, Look Forward to Look Back: CCA, LAGOS AT 15 Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos, December, 2022

by Admin | Aug 8, 2025 | Portfolio

To mark the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos’s 15th Anniversary celebration the time spent time reviewing the archive, remembering and discovery projects that spans the organisation’s history, The resulting exhibition is a site specific love letter to the space and...
Co-Curator, Gender Trouble in Contemporary Curating, Open Studio Project.  Bibliothek, Summer Academy Salzburg, Austria, 10 August, 2023

Co-Curator, Gender Trouble in Contemporary Curating, Open Studio Project. Bibliothek, Summer Academy Salzburg, Austria, 10 August, 2023

by Admin | Aug 8, 2025 | Portfolio

What is it to be a feminist in different geographical and cultural contexts as well as within different disciplines as  this of the visual? And is it only ‘one’ gender that matters? As early as 1990, a quarter of century ago, Judith Butler  called upon the society to...
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  • Co-Curator, Deep as the Sea, Wide as the Sky, November 2, 2024, an exhibition by 16by16 in collaboration with Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), Lagos, Geothe Institute, Lagos, Yaba Art Museum (YAM), and CBN.land and JAM
  • Code-Switch: Icons & Inheritance
  • Curatorial Assistant: Re: Entanglements, Contemporary and Colonial Archives (Northcote Thomas, Kelani Abass) National Museum, Onikan Road, Ikoyi, Lagos September 21 – October 21, 2019
  • Curatorial Assistant: Seed Yams of Our Land Centre for Contemporary Art Lagos (CCA), 14 Sept – 25 October, 2019
  • Curatorial Assistant: Diaspora at Home Centre for Contemporary Art Lagos (CCA), November 4, 2019 – January 31, 2020

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