(Painting · b. 1988, Lagos · lives in Berlin)
Mira Okafor
Okafor paints at the scale of a wall and the speed of a sprint. Her canvases are built from dozens of thin layers of pure pigment, scraped back and repainted until the colour starts to hum.
“I want the colour to arrive before the meaning does.”— Mira Okafor
(Biography)
Okafor paints at the scale of a wall and the speed of a sprint. Her canvases are built from dozens of thin layers of pure pigment, scraped back and repainted until the colour starts to hum.
1988Born
2014First solo show
2019Joins VOLUME
2026Loud Colour
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