Taiye Idahor
Taiye Idahor (b. 1984, Nigeria) is a visual artist living and working in Lagos Nigeria. Her work is multidisciplinary, incorporating drawing, sculpture, collage and more recently painting and printmaking to articulate ideas of women’s identity while using “hair” as a consistent visual language in her work.
Taiye Idahor’s work further explores subjects of memory, culture, tradition and modernity in relation to women’s interactions and navigation of the modern world. These interests have also set her on a path of constantly seeking ways to subsume these feminine histories, while also excavating her own ancestry and stories from her hometown of Benin City.
Her work forms part of the permanent collections of Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town (ZA); the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (CA); Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton (US); the Stanley Museum of Art, Iowa City (US); and the Brooklyn Museum, New York (US), among others.