Depth, not breadth
We represent one painter. That single focus lets us know the work completely, from the earliest study to the most recent canvas.
A Single-Artist Gallery
The Monograph of Chike Onuorah
We dedicate the gallery to one painter and one evolving body of work, presented with the depth, rigor, and reverence it deserves.
The Feature Work
Onuorah paints the way an archivist remembers, with a patience that turns pigment into testimony. Few painters of his generation hold a single register so completely.
The Collection
Available Works
A sequence drawn from the current holdings of Chike Onuorah. Each work is offered with full provenance and condition notes; viewings are arranged by appointment at the gallery.
University of Life
- Artist
- Chike Onuorah
- Medium
- Oil and acrylic on linen
- Dimensions
- 152 × 122 cm
- Year
- 2023
- Acquisition
- Price on request
Woman of Substance
- Artist
- Chike Onuorah
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 140 × 110 cm
- Year
- 2023
- Acquisition
- 16,500 — 19,000
Changing Faces
- Artist
- Chike Onuorah
- Medium
- Mixed media on board
- Dimensions
- 122 × 91 cm
- Year
- 2023
- Acquisition
- Collected, private sale
Evergreen Love
- Artist
- Chike Onuorah
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 160 × 130 cm
- Year
- 2023
- Acquisition
- 17,500 — 21,000
Untitled, study
- Artist
- Chike Onuorah
- Medium
- Charcoal and oil on paper
- Dimensions
- 76 × 56 cm
- Year
- 2026
- Acquisition
- Price on request
The Artist
One painter, one evolving body of work
Chike Onuorah works between figuration and memory, building surfaces that hold light the way an archive holds a record. We have followed his practice from its earliest canvases, and the gallery exists to give that single trajectory the room it asks for.
Where most galleries divide attention across a roster, we concentrate it. Each acquisition of a Chike Onuorah work arrives with full provenance, a condition report, and a place within a coherent, deliberately narrow collection.
Why Ovico
A gallery measured in attention
Museum-grade provenance
Every work leaves the gallery with full provenance, a condition report, and documentation prepared to the standard a serious collection demands.
By appointment
Acquisitions begin with a private viewing. We arrange time with the work itself, unhurried, in the gallery or wherever the collection lives.
By Appointment
Enter the collection
We arrange private viewings of the work of Chike Onuorah for collectors and institutions. Tell us what you are looking for, and we will prepare the room.