Collection: Oliver Enwonwu 🇳🇬

Enwonwu is a well-recognised leader in the Nigerian arts and culture sector with about 20 years of progressive experience in art advisory, programme management, as well as strategy and development. In this period, he has also empowered creatives through skills enhancement and optimised business opportunities while managing consultants and working with stakeholders, from diverse cultural teams to the federal government.

 

A curator, art administrator, author, publisher and brand strategist, Enwonwu earned a first degree in biochemistry, an advanced diploma in exploration geophysics (distinction) and a postgraduate diploma in applied geophysics from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. From the same institution, he holds another post graduate diploma in visual arts (distinction) and graduated as the best Master’s in art history student. Presently, Enwonwu is pursuing a PhD in African art history at the University of Benin.

Oliver Enwonwu is the founder, executive director, and trustee of The Ben Enwonwu Foundation. He is also the CEO of Revilo Company Ltd., publishers of Omenka, Africa’s first arts, business and luxury-lifestyle magazine. From 2009 to July 2021, Enwonwu served as the President of the Society of Nigerian Artists, established in 1963 as the umbrella professional body for all artists in Nigeria, which exists to engender the highest standards of practice and teaching of the visual arts in Nigeria. As president, he appointed His Excellency, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, the then Vice President of Nigeria as Grand Patron of the Society, and led a delegation of stakeholders to public hearings at the Federal House of Representatives and the Senate on bills to Repeal and Re-Enact the National Gallery of Art Act and Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation Act, respectively. In addition, he established the Society’s College of Fellows and Hall of Fame. He is a Fellow of the Society.

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