Displaced, With Nowhere Like Home Painting

Born in Oguta in 1973, Anthony Nsofor is the second child of seven children. He studied Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and majored in Painting, graduating with a second class upper division certificate. He started an art studio in Owerri, Imo State called the Clay Wall Limited and later moved to Lagos to continue studio practice. To fill the gap, Anthony worked for 8 months with The Comet Newspapers, Lagos, writing for the Art editorial desk. He also worked at African Foundation for the Arts,Lagos, as gallery manager and personal assistant to Angela Onyeador. Anthony Nsofor later worked parttime for a year as an Art Educator at Whitesands School, a premium secondary school also in Lagos. Since 2008, he has kept a blog where he shares his views about life interests, his art and series of work, among other things. His biggest solo exhibition titled Autobiography and Beatitudes, opened in 2012 at the Pan Atlantic University, Ajah, Lagos. In 2015, he relocated his studio to Oguta, his village in Imo State. He also had 3 exhibitions thereafter in the same year- Ofala Exhibition at Obi of Onitsha's palace, Onitsha; The Contemporaries, a group show at The Wheatbaker Hotel, Lagos; and Recent Works with Ibe Ananaba at Temple Muse, Lagos. Anthony Nsofor's works will be shown at ArtX Lagos in November, 2017 by SMO gallery at the Civic Centre, Lagos.