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Chief Mrs. Nike Monica Okundaye

Founder/Director, Nike Art Gallery & Foundation

Chief Mrs. Nike Monica Okundaye

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  • Founder/Director
  • Nike Art Gallery / Foundation
  • Host

Nigerian textile artist and cultural custodian, and a leading figure of the Osogbo art movement. Born in Ogidi, Kogi State into a lineage of Yoruba weavers and indigo dyers, her great-grandmother Ibitola taught her the loom, she works in adire eleko, batik, embroidery and paint. Across more than five decades and over 100 international exhibitions she has devoted her practice to reviving traditional Nigerian textile art and to supporting women in the craft industry.

Chapters

  • Abuja★Host — Founder/Director, Nike Art Gallery & Foundation

Certificates

  • PB-ABJ-2026-024 · Host — Founder/Director, Nike Art Gallery & Foundation· prepared, not yet issued

Profile

Who Chief Mrs. Nike Monica Okundaye is

She directs the Nike Art Gallery in Lekki, Lagos, one of the largest in West Africa, holding some 8,000 works, with branches in Abuja, Osogbo and Ogidi, and four centres offering free training where more than 3,000 young Nigerians have learned a craft at no cost. Her work entered the Smithsonian's permanent display in 2012 and features in Tate Modern's Nigerian Modernism (October 2025 – May 2026). She received the U.S. Exchange Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award in 2024 and was honoured by the Pennsylvania House and Senate alongside Wole Soyinka in April 2025. In December 2025 kó presented her in a solo booth at Art Basel Miami Beach, and in 2026 Federal University Lokoja opened the Nike Institute of African Heritage and Museum Studies in her honour, naming her Professor of Practice (Art).

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Abuja
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