Emenike Ogwo

ARTIST STATEMENT

Work is worthless unless mixed with brains. The quality of your work will have a great deal to do with the quality of your life. If your work quality is down, your character will be down, your standard down, your ideas down. So whatever you try to do in life, devote yourself to it completely.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Emenike Ogwo was born in 1965 in Akanu Ohafia, Abia State, Nigeria. He received his Higher National Diploma (HND) in Painting from Auchi Polytechnic, Edo State, in 1994. He completed his one-year compulsory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) at the Nigerian Army School of Military Engineering (NASME), Makurdi, Benue State, where he served as an art instructor.

After his formal education, Emenike established his studio practice and began producing works that have received recognition both in Nigeria and internationally. A devout Christian, he is married with three children.

He has participated in several solo and group exhibitions, both within and outside Nigeria.