Agwunobi Emmanuel Ekene, known as EminoArt, is a Nigerian contemporary visual artist working across expressive, abstract and surreal painting. His practice explores identity, memory and human experience: African and Nigerian life, home and the everyday. He developed Eminoism, his own visual language, and the signature series The Stitched Body. B.A. Fine Art and Design, University of Port Harcourt. Based in Lagos.
Nigerian
Agwunobi Emmanuel Ekene
Contemporary African art
Works
Agwunobi Emmanuel EkeneCollective Grief, 2026Acrylic on canvas · EminoArtOn view
Agwunobi Emmanuel EkeneCompassions of Silence, 2025Acrylic on canvas · EminoArtOn view
Agwunobi Emmanuel EkeneDiaspora Bridges, 2026Acrylic on canvas · EminoArtOn view
Agwunobi Emmanuel EkeneNostalgia, 2026Acrylic on canvas · EminoArtOn view
Agwunobi Emmanuel EkeneRhythm of the Past, 2024Acrylic on canvas · EminoArtOn view
Agwunobi Emmanuel EkeneShelter, 2026Acrylic on canvas · EminoArtOn view
Agwunobi Emmanuel EkeneSilent Witness, 2026Acrylic on canvas · EminoArtOn view
Agwunobi Emmanuel EkeneThe Ceremony of FacesEminoArtOn view
Agwunobi Emmanuel EkeneThe Weight of Silence, 2026Acrylic on canvas · EminoArtOn viewThe movement
Contemporary African art
1990s onwards · Africa and the diaspora
African art made now, across painting, photography, sculpture, installation, film and new media, at home and in the diaspora. Since the 1990s it has had its own biennials and fairs (Dak'Art from 1992, the Rencontres de Bamako from 1994, the Johannesburg Biennale in 1995 and 1997, 1-54 from 2013) and museums such as Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town (2017).
What to look for
Every medium; identity, migration, the city, history and memory; local materials and global subjects at once.
Masters of the school
- El Anatsui reference ↗
- Yinka Shonibare reference ↗
- Julie Mehretu reference ↗
- Wangechi Mutu reference ↗
- Njideka Akunyili Crosby reference ↗
- Ibrahim Mahama reference ↗
- Abdoulaye Konaté reference ↗
- Kader Attia reference ↗