Emmanuel Eni (born 1967) is a Nigerian-born artist and poet. He works in various mediums including painting, sculpture, and performance art.
Emmanuel Eni (born 1967) is a Nigerian-born artist and poet. He works in various mediums including painting, sculpture, and performance art.
Eni is from Igbanke, in mid-west Nigeria. He received a degree from Igbobi College in Lagos, Nigeria. In 1984 he graduated from the polytechnic Auchi in the same city. The University of Benin awarded him a BA in sculpture in 1991. Afterwards, he attended the Royal Academy of Arts in London, where he received a degree in 1993.
He is the inventor and patent holder of "New Light Paintings", and the philosopher of the thesis of "Contemporary Baroque." He is the writer and performer of "Black man in European Kitchen" and is also known as the "sculptor of elephants," and the "Father of 100 Elephants." His drama Death of the Curator was performed at the Museum of Ethnography in Leipzig.
He has repeatedly addressed the Israel-Palestine conflict in his works, as in the Dakar Biennale in 2006.
Eni has had exhibitions at the Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon, France, the Biennale in Dakar (Dak'Art) Senegal, and parallel at the Documenta 12 in Kassel.
In 2026, Eni introduced two digital evaluation frameworks designed to provide objective pricing for professional artworks:
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