Donald Onuoha, born in Lagos in 1971, is a distinguished Nigerian artist celebrated for his mastery of Cubism and his distinctive painting style. He graduated with a Distinction in Painting from the Institute of Management Technology, Enugu, in 1999, and has since gained recognition for his ability to blend boldness with emotional depth. Onuoha's works, primarily created using roller brushes...
Donald Onuoha, born in Lagos in 1971, is a distinguished Nigerian artist celebrated for his mastery of Cubism and his distinctive painting style. He graduated with a Distinction in Painting from the Institute of Management Technology, Enugu, in 1999, and has since gained recognition for his ability to blend boldness with emotional depth. Onuoha's works, primarily created using roller brushes with oil and acrylic on canvas, are visually arresting and conceptually layered, resonating with both local and global audiences. Deeply influenced by Cubism, Onuoha's art explores complex themes of beauty, femininity, and identity. His compositions, though seemingly simple in form, are imbued with a profound sense of aesthetic and intellectual rigor. Each piece reflects a deep engagement with the human experience, presented through fragmented perspectives and geometric planes that challenge conventional notions of visual reality. Throughout his career, Onuoha has exhibited his work in numerous prestigious group exhibitions, both in Nigeria and internationally. Notable showcases include the World Bank Art Exhibition in New York, the Donald and Ayoola exhibition at Signature Gallery in Lagos, and the critically acclaimed Awaken the Dawn at Terra Kulture in Lagos. His works continue to evolve, offering new interpretations of identity, culture, and the female form, est.
Donald Onuoah
Jean fabric becomes the canvas tough, textured, lived-in. Across its surface, brown-toned acrylic spills and seeps, refusing perfection. Worn Stories is a celebration of everyday material reimagined as memory. In this mixed media piece, what's typically worn becomes what's seen holding stains like moments, and threads like echoes of work, movement, and history.
Donald Onuoah
A face emerges in shades of grey, abstract and angled-turned just enough to make you wonder what it sees. Side of Thought captures that in-between moment: not fully forward, not fully away. In monochrome, emotion is distilled to form and shadow, allowing quiet tension to speak. It's a study of presence that doesn't need color to feel full.
Donald Onuoah
Bold, fragmented, yet focused the face meets your gaze without flinching. In layered lines and shifting forms, Seen strips away detail to reveal presence. Abstract yet intense, it challenges the viewer to hold eye contact, to feel what's unsaid. This is more than a face it's a mirror, a question, a quiet confrontation.
Donald Onuoah
The face is there but not fully. Lines blur, features fold, and identity slips through form. Hidden in Plain Sight is an abstract reflection of emotion held inward where what we show and what we feel quietly collide. In this piece, the face is a suggestion, not a statement. It asks us to look closer, then closer still.
Donald Onuoah
Against a glowing orange backdrop, figures stand fully wrapped faces hidden, bodies sealed in fabric or meaning. Wrapped in Silence speaks of protection, concealment, and identity layered in mystery. The orange burns like heat or hope, while the wraps suggest stories untold. Are they shielding themselves or being preserved? The painting leaves space for the viewer to wonder, and that's where its power lies.
Donald Onuoah
There's no visible glance, yet you feel the gaze gentle, downward, reflective. The face holds still, but emotion flows from its quiet tilt. The Quiet Tilt speaks to moments of inner pause, where the body hints at thoughts the face never fully shows. It's about feeling seen in the unseen- soft, solemn, and deeply human.
Donald Onuoah
Lines curve and collide like quiet conversations beneath the surface, forming a symphony of fractured light and hidden meaning. Whispers in Geometry invites the viewer to get lost in its layered textures where bold colors meet muted truths, and each shape carries memory, rhythm, and emotion. It's not just form it's a feeling waiting to be decoded.
Donald Onuoah
A patchwork of abstract faces emerges from the textured depth of jean stitched not with thread, but with emotions and expression Threaded Souls blurs the line between fabric and feeling, where each face whispers a story beneath the indigo weave. It's wearable history reimagined as art a denim diary of human connection.
Donald Onuoah
A storm of colour, texture, and layered rhythm. Silent Vibrations is a pure abstract work that lets feeling speak louder than form; Painted on jean, its roughness opens into movement, where shapes dissolve and patterns collide. There are no faces here, just emotions stitched into chaos and calm. It's not what you see, it's what you feel.
Donald Onuoah
Layered with bold patterns and abstract expressions, this piece transforms denim into a living canvas. Each face some hidden, some pronounced emerges between stitched lines and rhythmic motifs. Faces in the Fabric speaks to the individuality within the collective, where no two patterns are alike, yet all are woven from the same cloth.
