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B.A Accounting - 2016
Upcoming Exhibition
- Stillness In Transit, Solo Exhibition, Mitochondria Gallery, Houston Texas, USA. November 1st - November 29th, 2025 
Selected Exhibitions
- Tracing the river back, Group Exhibition, Mitochondria Gallery, Houston Texas, USA. April 5th - May 2nd, 2025 
- Never Grow Up, Group Exhibition, Mazel Galerie, Brussels, Belgium. Feb. 14th - Mar 29th, 2025. 
- Shared Vision: Portraits from the CCH Pounder Cone collection. The African American Museum (AAMP), - Philadelphia, US. September 14th - March 2nd, 2025 
- Gathering at dawn, group exhibition, Mitochondria Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA. July 20th - August 10th, 2024 
- Persons and identities, group exhibition, Alexis Galleries, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria. Feb 17th - March 2nd, 2024 
- Memesis group exhibition, Black Liquid ART, Viterbo, Italy. February 4th - April 1st, 2023 
- The Natural, Coningsby Gallery, London, 2023 
- Shared memories exhibition, NK art space., Lagos, Nigeria. August 27th - September 19th, 2022 
- Context art Miami fair, Florida, USA. Nov. 30th - Dec 5th, 2021 
- Tenacity, a Nigerian contemporary group exhibition, Lagos, Nigeria. February 27th - March 8th 2021 
- MONIKER ART FAIR NYC, Greenpoint terminal, Brooklyn. May 3rd - 6th 2018. 
- COMMON THREAD exhibition, the black and white building, Shoreditch, UK. Aug 30th - Sept 1st 2018. 
- INSANITY group exhibition, Omenka Gallery, Ikoyi, Lagos state, Nigeria. Nov 26th - Dec 9th 2016. 
Awards
- Beautiful Bizzare magazine: Winner of 2022 Beautiful Bizzare art prize, Artnation People’s choice award 
- Award of Excellence, Benue Youth Choice awards, 2016 
Press
- TRT Afrika: Alex Idoko: 'My technique is fusing fire with sand and clay’, TRTAfrika 
- BoldBeautiful Mag: Fire and Razor: The Pyrography Masterpieces of Alex Peter Idoko 
- Artnetwork Africa: Mitochondria Gallery, The Potential of a New Day Explored in "Gathering At Dawn 
- My Modern met: Watch How This Artist "Draws" With Fire To Create Photorealistic Portraits 
- Beautiful Bizzare magazine: Winner of 2022 Beautiful Bizzare art prize, Artnation People’s choice award 
- Buzzfeed: Using fire to make portraits 
- Beautiful Bizzare magazine: An Inferno Starts With a Single Flame, African Artist Creates Stunning Works Of Art By Woodburning. 
- Prazzle Magazine: Alex Peter Idoko Uses Pyrography to Express African Realities and Re-brand Black Stories. 
- Omenka online: Alex idoko Peter on pyrography and Liberating Africa from her Past 
- BBC: Alexander Peter Idoko na artist wey dey use razor blade dey draw ontop burnt wood. 
- nwe: So talented……draw with fire on wood! 
- Reddit: This is how Alex Peter Idoko draws with Fire on wood. 
- Pubity: This is just incredible, the detail is insane all over… talent like this should not go unnoticed 
- Upworthy: Pyrography' artist makes hyper-realistic portraits on wood using only fire and razorblades 
- Worldstar: Alex with another amazing fire portrait! 
- ArtsHelp: Artist Alex Peter: Global Goal 8 on Decent Work and Economic Growth 
- Artnet gallery network: 4 Emerging Artists to Get on Your Radar, According to Milan’s Mon Share Art 
- TIMESLIVE SEBENZA: This artist uses wood to create hyperrealistic pieces. 
- TRTWORLD: Setting art alight in Nigeria | Unusual artforms. 
- DAZED: Four artists unpacking black identity that you should know. 
- NAIRALAND: Alex Peter, Nigerian Artist Who Draws With Razor Blade On Wood. 
- INFORMATION NIGERIA: SEE THE TALENTED NIGERIAN ARTIST WHO DRAWS WITH RAZOR BLADE ON WOOD. 
- NATIONAL HELM: Talented Nigerian Artist Uses Razor Blade And Wood To Showcase His Drawing Skills. 
