Nigeria
Founded in: 2008
+35 artworks in Aworanka
Founded on 6th October 2008, Habitude Gallery is a multidimensional art outfit dealing in two dimensional and three-dimensional art, they also undertake restoration and provenance. Habitude also offers design solutions, curatorial, art consultancy in exhibitions, acquisitions, and storage based on their experience managing the oldest and the first private visual art gallery in Nigeria. Habitude Gallery has been at the forefront of collaborating with the National Gallery of Art, Nigeria in curating the International Art Expo from 2008 to 2013 and the two editions of Aresuva in Lagos and Abuja respectively. They have also collaborated with the National Gallery in several areas of publication.
About the founder
Born on July 26, 1965, Burns Effiom is a designer, performance artist, and curator. He represented Nigeria at the DAK’ART Biennale 2010 in Senegal. He was a participant of the Nigeria-Korea Navitour with the National Gallery of Art Nigeria in 2013, held at the Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea.
An Alumni of Bruce Onobrakpeya Foundation’s Harmattan workshop, he collaborated with the United States of America Department of Information (USIS) and Bronx Museum on an Art and Diplomacy program titled “The Smartpower Initiative”.
Artists
Some of the artists represented by Habitude Gallery include:
