Nigerian Contemporary

Artists
Marcia Kure
• born 1970) is a Nigerian visual artist known primarily for
her mixed media paintings and drawings that engage with
postcolonial existentialist conditions and identities.
Her Early Life
• born 1970) is a Nigerian visual artist known primarily for
her mixed media paintings and drawings that engage with
postcolonial existentialist conditions and identities.
• Kure was born in Kano State, Nigeria.[3] She trained at
the University of Nigeria, Nsukka under painter Obiora
Udechukwu and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in painting in
1994.
Artworks Focused On Mainly
• Professional career and workedit
• Kure's early work focused on political violence and the agency
of women in patriarchal society.[6] Her later work has been
concerned with themes related to motherhood, haute couture
 fashion, and hip-hop aesthetics.