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Born in Kaduna, northern Nigeria, Williams Chechet is a visual artist, futurist passionate about history and ways in which to creatively reimagine and interrogate it using popular contemporary visual cultures, digital tools, and art. His works have been exhibited throughout Nigeria, and published in many journals and books. Influenced by hip hop and graffiti, he has also created numerous mural paintings in Nigeria. He draws his inspiration from his region of origin, to which he paid tribute through his project “We Are The North“, a series of illustrations depicting its inhabitants, as well as Born in Kaduna, northern Nigeria, Williams Chechet is a visual artist, futurist passionate about history and ways in which to creatively reimagine and interrogate it using popular contemporary visual cultures, digital tools, and art. His works have been exhibited throughout Nigeria, and published in many journals and books. Influenced by hip hop and graffiti, he has also created numerous mural paintings in Nigeria. He draws his inspiration from his region of origin, to which he paid tribute through his project “We Are The North“, a series of illustrations depicting its inhabitants, as well as well-known characters representative of the north. His style is a continuation of pop art and he cites the work of Eduardo Paolozzi, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Hamilton, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Takashi Murakami and Brian Donnelly as influences.
Since 2017, Chechet’s work has garnered numerous accolades, showing in Lagos, London, Belguim, Brooklyn, and Cape Town. He’s created commercial murals for MTV Base Africa, CoLab, and RydeFit. He’s designed album art for M.I Abaga and other rappers on the Chocolate City/Loopy Music label. It’s his two solo exhibitions, though, 2017’s We Are The North (curated at the Alliance Française de Lagos), and Hyperflux, which opened at Retro Africa in December, that help us quantify Dolly Kola-Balogun’s claim that Chechet has all ‘the makings of becoming the African Warhol’ while producing work that is ‘authentic and inspiring in its own right.’ ...
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