Taiye Idahor was born and grew up in Lagos Nigeria, she studied Fine Art at the Prestigious Yaba College of technology Lagos Nigeria where she graduated in 2007 with a Higher National Diploma (HND) after specialising in sculpture in her final years at the college.
Hairvolution, 2014.
About:
Over the last four years Taiye has worked significantly within the concept of identity and feminism quite unconsciously using mostly newspaper and weaves. Today she continues to explore the woman’s identity in particular, tangled through the issues of trade, the environment and globalisation and examines how these factors build the woman’s identity in today’s Africa but in particular Lagos Nigeria where she has lived all her life and also acts as a major source of inspiration to her especially through the found objects and materials she uses to create her work.
Hairvolution, 2014.
She has participated in a number of exhibitions and workshops both home and abroad to include Ravy International Art Festival March 2012- Yaoundé Cameroon, An Anonymous Tale- Yokohama Japan 2011, October Rain by SNA Lagos, Nigeria our Nigeria Presidential Inauguration Exhibition Abuja Nigeria 2011, 50 Years Ahead through the eyes of Nigerian Women Lagos and Abuja, and more recently the Dubai Art Fair, Marker 2013.
Change of Name Series, 2011.
Taiye has had the privilege to understudy and work with Nigerian artists Olu Amoda and Kainebi Osahenye. She also works part time with the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos.
Change of Name Series, 2011.
