• About
  • News
  • Friends
  • Applications
  • Contacts
SHOP
  • London
    • Home
    • Exhibitors
    • Artists
    • Press
    • Archive
  • New York
    • Home
    • Artists
    • Exhibitors
    • 1-54 Forum
    • Partners
    • What’s On
    • Special Projects
    • VIP Portal
    • Press
    • Archive
  • Marrakech
    • Home
    • Press
    • Partners
    • Archive
  • Paris
    • Home
    • Artists
    • Exhibitors
    • Forum
    • What’s On
    • VIP Portal
    • Press
    • Partners
    • Archive
  • Artists
  • Exhibitors
  • 1-54 Forum
  • Partners
  • What’s On
  • Special Projects
  • VIP Portal
  • Press
  • Archive
Menu

New York 2018

  • 1-54 Forum 2018
  • Exhibitors 2018
  • Partners 2018

Idahor, TaiyeTyburn Gallery

Born 1984, Lagos, Nigeria
Lives and works in Lagos, Nigeria

Taiye Idahor, Osayi, 2017, Photo paper collage, pen drawing and colour pencil on paper, 120.6 x 88.5 x 4.5 cm, 47 x 34 x 2 in. Courtesy Tyburn Gallery  

Taiye Idahor’s work explores themes that are simultaneously universal and intimate, expressing female and African identity within the broader contexts of history, tradition and globalisation. Her new body of work is a reflection on women and power through the iconic figure of the Iyoba, mother of the king of Benin City. The Iyoba’s beaded regalia has become a symbolic representation of women’s authority, with its aesthetic casually evoked by many modern brides in Nigeria, often using inexpensive plastic beads instead of real coral. These collages highlight the voids created by the absence of women in genuine positions of power, and the uncertainty felt by women who must define themselves among all of the conflicting expectations, demands, and disempowering realities of society. The artist has shown in group exhibitions across Europe, the Americas and Africa, and her first UK solo exhibition was mounted this year at Tyburn Gallery, London. Her work is part of the collection of the Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town.

Selected Artists

Boetti, Alghiero

Adams, Derrick

Botes, Conrad

Sidibé, Malick

Meyer, Kyle

Sibiya, Bambo

Musekiwa, Terrence

Sime, Elias

Artists 2018

  • A

    • Aboudia
    • Adams, Derrick
    • Adewale, Alimi
    • Alatise, Peju
    • Andrialavidrazana, Malala
    • Appah, Gideon
    • Asidere, Duke
  • B

    • Baya
    • Ben Bella, Mahjoub
    • Bey, Omar
    • Binebine, Mahi
    • Boetti, Alghiero
    • Botes, Conrad
    • Boughriet, Halida
    • Boutté, Nathalie
    • Bruly Bouabré, Fréderic
  • C

    • Choumali, Joana
    • Cissé, Soly
  • D

    • De Medeiros, Emo
    • Diop, Omar Victor
    • Douglas Camp CBE, Sokari
  • E

    • Ekpuk, Victor
    • El-Salahi, Ibrahim
    • Erruas, Safaa
  • F

    • Fagbohoun, Dimitri
  • H

    • Hugo, Pieter
    • Hwami, Kudzanai-Violet
  • I

    • Idahor, Taiye
  • K

    • Kamel, Ahmed
    • Kamudzengerere, Admire
    • Kannemeyer, Anton
    • Kganye, Lebohang
    • Khanyile, Phumzile
    • Khelil, Farah
    • Koraïchi, Rachid
  • L

    • Lemaoana, Lawrence
  • M

    • Mabunda, Gonçalo
    • Maludi, Houston
    • Marasela, Senzeni
    • Mejri, Thameur
    • Meyer, Kyle
    • Mika, JP
    • Monosov, Rachel
    • Msezane, Sethembile
    • Musekiwa, Terrence
  • N

    • Ngayimoko, Ambroise
    • Nzebo, Boris
  • O

    • Ogunji, Wura-Natasha
    • Okpa-Iroha, Uche
    • Olagunju, Niyi
    • Olatunji, Babajide
    • Osodi, George
    • Oukpedjo, Sadikou
  • S

    • Sanogo, Amadou
    • Saouabi, Nabil
    • Seydou, Kassou
    • Shonibare MBE, Yinka
    • Sibiya, Bambo
    • Sidibé, Malick
    • Sime, Elias
    • Sory, Sanlé
  • T

    • Takadiwa, Moffat
    • Triki, Gouider
  • W

    • Wahaab, Uthman
    • Wemega-Kwawu, Rikki

Sign up to our Newsletter

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Youtube
  • Instagram
  • Artsy
Buy limited edition bags
Privacy Policy

Sign up to our Newsletter