EDUCATION
2010 Higher National Diploma Degree in Fine Arts, Lagos Nigeria (Major: Painting)
School of Arts, Designs and print | Yaba College of Technology
2007 Ordinary National Diploma Degree in Fine Arts ( General Art ) Lagos Nigeria.
School of Arts, Designs and print | Yaba College of Technology
EXHIBITIONS
2023 ArtX Lagos. O’DA ART Lagos, Nigeria (Solo Presentation)
Filling In The Pieces In Black, Saatchi Gallery, London
Filling In The Pieces In Black, Maruani Mercier, Brussels.
2022 Dallas Art Fair, Sapar Contemporary, Dallas Texas, USA
Abele Project Pilot, French Consulate, Lagos Nigeria.
2021 In proportion, O’DA Gallery Lagos Nigeria.
Self Addressed by Kehinde Wiley, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, LA
The Rising, curated by Falana &Oyinda Fakeye Alara Lagos, Nigeria
In The Flesh, Sapar Contemporary, New York, USA (Solo Exhibition)
Art On the postCard, Hoxton Gallery, London United Kingdom
Open Studio, Othman Studio, Lagos Nigerian
Painting Figures, Gallery Rosenfeld, London United Kingdom
2020 Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Nada Fair, Online Fair. New York
2019 ArtX Lagos Art Fair, Galleria Voss, Lagos Nigeria
Lagos Biennial II, Lagos, Nigeria
Floor One Nine, Art Twenty One Gallery, Lagos Nigeria
1:54 Art Fair London, THREAD Cultural Connect, (SPECIAL PROJECT)
TAFETA Presents, Art Tafeta, London United Kingdom
2018 1:54 Art Fair, New York , Sapar Contemporary New York USA (solo)
Verticality, Rosenfeld Porcini Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
Thinking Through Drawing, Sapar Contemporary Gallery, New York
TTR Sotheby's International Realty, Washington, DC, USA
2017 Phenomenal Woman, Sapar Contemporary Gallery, New York (solo)
ExpoChicago Art Fair with Sapar Contemporary Chicago, USA.
Dallas Art Fair with Sapar Contemporary, Dallas Texas, USA
Summer Series, Art Tafeta, London United Kingdom
Drawing series, Sapar Contemporary Tribeca New York
2016 Art X Lagos Art Fair with White Space, Lagos Nigeria
TAFETA & Idalo arts, St Tropez, France
TAFETA & Idalo arts,Vic-en Bigorre, France
2015 Interaction: Crossing Lines, Rele Gallery, Lagos Nigeria (Catalogue)
2014 Hybrid Theory, Signature-Beyond Gallery,Lagos Nigeria (Catalogue)
2012 Fresh Vernacular, Signature-Beyond Gallery, Lagos Nigeria. ( Catalogue)
2011 HOUSE OF TASIA Miss Africa California Beauty Pageant, California USA
2010 MudCloth Madness with Marshall Bailey, Kumba Collective Art Gallery
2007 Beautiful Nigeria, Thought Pyramid Gallery, Abuja, Nigeria
Henbuog Art and Music Salon Exhibition, Sheraton Hotel & Resorts, Lagos
West Africa Polytechnics Game (WAPOGA) Art Show, Yusuf Grillo Art Gallery, Yaba College of Technology, Lagos Nigeria
2005 Our Impression, Kalakriti Group, Lalit Kala Academy, Mumbai India
Within Our Grasp, National Museum Onikan, Lagos Nigeria
RESIDENCIES / WORKSHOPS
2021 Complexity of Heritage – A School Resource, African Diaspora Foundation
Milton Keynes Arts Centre, United Kingdom ( Art Instructor)
Beyond the Canvass, Art Bridge Project, Lagos Nigeria (Mentor)
Art Alive Artist in Residency, London, United Kingdom
2020 CharlesDrew High School : Artist Talk / Drawing Demonstration,USA
2018 Thread: a Project of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Sinthian,
2011 Global Art Crit Clinic workshop with Bisi Silva, Antawan Byrd, Kianga Ford,
Selzer and Wura Natasha, CCA Lagos, Nigeria.
2010 Dancing With The Master workshop with Olu Amoda, Yaba Tech
2007 Nokia Expression Photography Project, Lagos Nigeria.
2005 Environmental Sustainability (poetry/Art workshop) CATE Goethe-
Institute Lagos, Nigeria.
NOMINATIONS/AWARDS
2021 Nominee The Norval Sovereign African Art Prize.
2020 Nominee Luxembourg Art Prize
2019 Nominee Future Generation Art Prize
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021 Chibundu Onuzo, “Being young, Black and collecting art: my life in the art world” The Art NewsPaper Ian Rosenfeld, “Painting the Figure” Rosenfeld
2020 Noah Becker, “Art in the Time of Covid-19” WhiteHot Magazine
2019 Kojo Abudu, “ Building a Future from the Rubble: The Second Lagos Biennial” Frieze Vivencias
Collective “ Vivencias Interview Series” Visual Collaborative
Ibironke Oluwatobi, “One man, His Art and The Viewing World” TUSH
Ibironke Oluwatobi, “One man, His Art and The Viewing World” MEDIUM
2018 Olamide, “On body acceptance, Fasting and the Western Gaze” ĘPARAPÓ
Nii B. Andrews, “ The OROBO Nudes of Uthman Wahab” ARTcapital Ghana
Seph Rodny, “The Stories Of African Contemporary Art Are Everywhere at the 1-54 Art Fair” Hyperallergic
Samuel Reilly, “What’s In Store At Frieze and 1-54 In New York This week” Apollo
Artsy Specialist, From Frieze to 1-54: “Works to buy From Contemporary African Artists” Artsy
2018
African Artist Foundation, “The Woman, The Muse (Female Representation in Contemporary African Art)” Google Arts & Culture.
2017
Obidike Okafor, “ Celebration of Flesh” Intense Art Magazine
Sapar Contemporary, “Uthman Wahaab” Wall Street International
Veronica, “Uthman Wahaab; Phenomenal Woman, Art Week NYC
Fresh Friday “Uthman Wahaab And The New Gaze”, Art Talk Collective.
Isa Freeling, “Uthman Wahaab Paints Beauty Big” HuffPost.
Priscilla Frank, “The Nigerian Artist Drawing Exuberantly Plump And Pampered Nudes” HuffPost
Jasmin Wahi, “Phenomenal Woman”, Sapar Contemporary
2016
Enorese, “Uthman Wahaab” Artist Blog
2015
Aarinola Jonathan, “Crossing the Lines” Heathersplace Blog
2014
Tajudeen Sowole, Challenging the tradition with Hybrid Theory,TheGuardian Nigeria. Prisca Sam-Duru, “Hybrid Theory...Metaphorical Narrative of African Identity, Africanism”, Vanguard Nigeria.
2012
Tajudeen Sowole, “Fresh Vernacular” African Art with Taj.