Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 2025 Art Auction | Hosted by Sotheby's

Peter Uka

Anticipating

Estimate

60,000 - 70,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Peter Uka

b. 1975

Anticipating

Executed in 2025.

Oil on canvas

43 1/4 x 39 3/8 in. (109.9 x 100 cm)

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Courtesy of the artist and Mariane Ibrahim (Chicago, Paris, Mexico City)

Inspired by his childhood in Nigeria, Peter Uka (b. 1975, Benue, Nigeria; lives in Cologne, Germany) paints scenes of life from the 1970s and 1980s, referencing personal experiences to explore a sense of familiarity. Uka’s attention to past global trends illustrates the ways in which cultures can be connected over distances. Uka’s work has been presented in recent exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Arts, London; K20 Collection, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany; Long Museum, Shanghai, China; and FLAG Art Foundation, New York. His work is also in the collections of CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on Hudson, NY; Long Museum, Shanghai, China; the Dean Collection; and Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, among others. Uka received the Förderpreis der Freunde und Förderer der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 2017.