Description

Oshodi Arts Gallery is a cultural and creative institution dedicated to preserving, interpreting, and showcasing Nigeria’s rich cultural history through visual art. The gallery serves as a living archive, presenting Nigeria’s cultural heritage in a visual form that captures lifestyles, traditions, social structures, and historical moments across different periods in time. Through carefully curate... Oshodi Arts Gallery is a cultural and creative institution dedicated to preserving, interpreting, and showcasing Nigeria’s rich cultural history through visual art. The gallery serves as a living archive, presenting Nigeria’s cultural heritage in a visual form that captures lifestyles, traditions, social structures, and historical moments across different periods in time. Through carefully curated artworks, Oshodi Arts Gallery documents aspects of Nigerian life such as traditional practices, masquerades, royal thrones, kingdoms, and community life. Each artwork provides historical context, reflecting the era in which it was produced and offering insight into the people, values, and experiences of that time. In this way, the gallery creates a visual record that connects past generations with the present and future. Beyond preservation, Oshodi Arts Gallery plays an active role in promoting artists and their works through exhibitions, cultural events, festivals, and carnivals. The gallery is committed to community engagement and public awareness in the arts, organising training programmes, outreach initiatives, secondary school art competitions, and empowerment programmes aimed at nurturing creativity and cultural consciousness among young people. Complementing the gallery is a suite of ultra-modern studios dedicated to painting, sculpture, textiles and fashion, graphics and animation, photography, and ceramics. These studios are designed to support skill development, professional practice, and creative experimentation, while upholding high standards of artistic quality. Oshodi Arts Gallery is driven by a clear mission: to standardise artistic excellence, encourage emerging talents, and strengthen the visibility of Nigerian and African art on both local and global stages. Through education, exhibition, and engagement, we continue to contribute meaningfully to cultural preservation and creative development.