Peter Uka, Basement Barbers, 2018. Courtesy of the artist and Mariane Ibrahim.
The FLAG Art Foundation is pleased to present Peter Uka: Remembrance, which is the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York, on view March 12-June 4, 2022 . Born in 1975 in Nigeria’s Benue State and based in Cologne, Germany, Uka paints large-scale portraits and group scenes that draw inspiration from his childhood memories, which include 70s-era fashion and hairstyles, wallpaper patterns, and dance moves. The artist offers a counternarrative to outmoded perceptions of both his home country and non-Western culture at large, while Elucidating the richness and joyfulness in both the solitary and shared moments of Black life, while clarifying the richness and joyfulness in both the solitary and shared moments of Black life.
March 4, 2022
