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Bruce Onobrakpeya
Exhibition List

Selected Solo Exhibitions

  • 2023Bruce Onobrakpeya: The Mask and the Cross, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
  • 2019ENI! You Can Always Tell Where the Elephant Has Passed By, SMO Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria
  • 2016Onobrakpeya & The Harmattan Workshop, SMO Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria
  • 2015-2016Best of Bruce, SMO Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria
  • 2013Exhibition of Recent Works by Bruce Onobrakpeya, SMO Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria
  • 1959Debut solo exhibition, Ughelli, Niger Delta, Nigeria

Selected Group Exhibitions

Work held in major public collections including Tate Modern (London), the British Museum (London), the Victoria and Albert Museum (London), the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C.), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), the Vatican Museums (Rome) and the Malmö Konsthall (Sweden), alongside numerous Nigerian institutions including the National Gallery of Modern Art, Lagos.

  • 2025Enduring Legacies, Ecobank Pan African Centre, Lagos, Nigeria
  • 2025When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting, BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium
  • 2024Our Story II: Reflections on Building an Institutional Collection, SMO Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria
  • 2024Herbert’s Art & Soul: In Celebration of Herbert, Chizoba & Chizi, SMO Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria
  • 2006Honourable Mention, 44th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
  • 2000Amos Tutuola Show, Lagos, Nigeria (organised by the Bruce Onobrakpeya Foundation)