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Nike Davies-Okundaye is a Nigerian artist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. She is the founder and director of the Nike Art Gallery, the largest art gallery in West Africa. She is also the founder of the Nike Centre for Art and Culture, which provides art education and training to young people in Nigeria. Nike Davies-Okundaye was born in Ogidi, Nigeria, and grew up in a family of artists. She began painting at the age of seven and was encouraged by her father to pursue her passion. She studied art at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and later at the University of Ife. Nike Davies-Okundaye has had a successful career as an artist, exhibiting her work in galleries and museums around the world. She has also been involved in numerous philanthropic projects, including the establishment of the Nike Centre for Art and Culture. Nike Davies-Okundaye is 69 years old. She has not shared about She's parent's name. Our team currently working, we will update Family, Sibling, Spouse and Children's information. Right now, we don't have much information about Education Life. Nike Davies-Okundaye's estimated Net Worth, Salary, Income, Cars, Lifestyles & much more details has been updated below. Let's check, How Rich is Nike Davies-Okundaye in 2020? According to Forbes, Wikipedia, IMDB, and other reputable online sources, Nike Davies-Okundaye has an estimated net worth of $1 Million - $5 Million at the age of 69 years old in year 2021. She has earned most of her wealth from her thriving career as an artist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist from Nigeria. It is possible that She makes money from other undiscovered sources.

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Age 73 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 23 May 1951
Birthday 23 May
Birthplace Ogidi, Kogi State, Nigeria
Nationality Nigeria

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2019

Nike Okundaye was included in the 2019 show I Am… Contemporary Women Artists of Africa at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art in Washington, D C.

In 2019 Rhodes University in Grahamstown announced it would award Davies-Okundaye an honorary doctorate in fine arts (DFA, hc).

2012

Davies-Okundaye was featured on CNN International's "African Voices" which tells about Africa's most engaging personalities, exploring their lives and passions. Moreover, Nike's painting is permanently featured at The Smithsonian Museum as of 2012, and her work is also part of the collection of the Gallery of African Art and The British Library, in London. She holds the chieftaincy titles of the Yeye Oba of Ogidi-Ijumu and the Yeye Tasase of Oshogbo.

1968

Over the past twenty years, she has given workshops on traditional Nigerian textiles to audiences in the United States and Europe. She had her first solo exhibition at the Goethe Institute, Lagos in 1968. She is the founder and director of four art centers that offer free training to over 150 young artists in visual, musical and performing arts, comprising more than 7,000 artworks.

1951

Chief Nike Davies-Okundaye (born 1951), also known as Nike Okundaye, Nike Twins Seven Seven and Nike Olaniyi, is a Nigerian batik and Adire textile designer.

Nike Okundaye was born in 1951 in Ogidi, Kogi State, in North-Central Nigeria, and was brought up amidst the traditional weaving and dyeing as practised in her home town. Her parents and great grandmother were musicians and craftspeople, who specialised in the areas of cloth weaving, adire making, indigo dyeing and leather. She spent part of her early life in Osogbo, Western Nigeria, modern-day Osun State. Osogbo is also recognised as a major centre for art and culture in Nigeria. Growing up in Osogbo, young Nike was exposed to indigo dyeing and Adire production which dominated her informal training.