title: List of Nigerian women artists
text: # List of Nigerian women artists
  
  This is a list of women artists who were born in the Nigeria or whose artworks are closely associated with that country.
  
  ## A
  
  * Haneefah Adam, visual artist
  * Jenevieve Aken (born 1989), photographer focused on self-portraits, portrait, and documentary photos
  * Peju Alatise (born 1975), artist, poet, writer
  * Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze (born 1982), Nigerian-born British-American drawings and works on paper, she lives in Brooklyn, New York
  
  ## B
  
  * Olawunmi Banjo (born 1985), painter, drawing
  
  ## C
  
  * Sokari Douglas Camp (born 1958), Nigerian-born English sculptor
  * Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy (1952–2012), Nigerian-born English figurative painter
  * Njideka Akunyili Crosby (born 1983), Nigerian-born visual artist, lives in Los Angeles
  
  ## D
  
  * Nike Davies-Okundaye (born 1951), batik and adire textile designer
  * Ndidi Dike (born 1960), English-born Nigerian sculpture and mixed-media painter
  
  ## E
  
  * Afi Ekong (1930–2009), painter, fashion designer and member of the royal family of Edidem Bassey Eyo Epharaim Adam III
  * Oroma Elewa, visual and performance artist, writer and creative director
  * Ekene Emeka Maduka (born 1996), Canadian-Nigerian contemporary artist known for her self portraits
  
  ## F
  
  * Modupeola Fadugba (born 1985), painter
  
  ## K
  
  * Ayobola Kekere-Ekun (born 1993), contemporary visual artist
  * Marcia Kure (born 1970), mixed media painter and drawer
  * Ladi Kwali ( c.1925–1984), potter
  
  ## L
  
  * Peju Layiwola (born 1967), visual artist, art historian, and professor
  
  ## O
  
  * Toyin Ojih Odutola (born 1985), Nigerian-born American known for her multimedia drawings and works on paper
  * Temitayo Ogunbiyi (born 1984), contemporary artist and curator
  * Suzanna Ogunjami, painter, printmaker, jewelry designer; first African woman to have a solo exhibit in a commercial gallery in the United States
  * Amarachi Okafor (born 1977), sculptor, mixed media artist
  * Nnenna Okore (born 1975), Australian-born American textile artist and sculptor, of Nigerian descent
  * Ebele Okoye (born 1969), Nigerian-born German painter, animator
  * Adéọlá Ọlágúnjú, photographer, video artist, sound and installation artist
  * Princess Elizabeth Olowu (born 1939), sculptor, daughter of Oba Akenzua II
  
  ## T
  
  * Patience Torlowei (born 1964), fashion designer
  * Fatimah Tuggar (born 1967), interdisciplinary artist
  
  ## W
  
  * Susanne Wenger (1915–2009), Austrian-born Nigerian sculptor
  