Selected Museum Exhibitions

2025
Shared Vision: Portraits from the CCH Pounder Cone collection. The African American Museum (AAMP), Philadelphia, US.

Selected Art Fairs

2026
POSITIONS Art Fair Berlin 2026, Christian Marxl Gallery, Germany.

2026
AfricaBasel 2026, Mazel Galerie, Switzerland.

2025
Atlanta Art Fair 2025: Mitochondria Gallery, Atlanta, USA.

2021
Context art Miami fair, Monshareart, Florida, USA.

2018
MONIKER ART FAIR NYC, Greenpoint terminal, Brooklyn, USA.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026

• Between Flame, Stone and Tide , Mitochondria Gallery, Houston, Texas.

2026

• heARTworks, Mazel Galerie, Brussels, Belgium.

2025

• Tracing the river back, Mitochondria Gallery, Houston Texas, USA.

• Atlanta Art Fair 2025: Mitochondria Gallery, Atlanta, USA.

• Never Grow Up, Mazel Galerie, Brussels, Belgium.

2024

• Place Of Repose II, Mitochondria Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA.

• Gathering at dawn, Mitochondria Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA. 

• Persons and identities, Alexis Galleries, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria.

2023

• Memesis group exhibition, Black Liquid ART, Viterbo, Italy.

• The Natural II, Coningsby Gallery, London.

• The Natural, Coningsby Gallery, London.

2022

• Shared memories exhibition, NK art space., Lagos, Nigeria.

2021

• Tenacity, a Nigerian contemporary group exhibition, Lagos, Nigeria.

• Context art Miami fair, Monshareart, Florida, USA.

2018

• COMMON THREAD exhibition, the black and white building, Shoreditch, UK.

2016

• INSANITY group exhibition, Omenka Gallery, Ikoyi, Lagos state, Nigeria.

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

• Africa Art News: When Fire Holds Its Breath: Alex Peter Idoko at Mitochondria Gallery

• Glasstire: Alex Peter Idoko: Stillness in Transit

• WHYY: Actress CCH Pounder’s art collection comes to the African American Museum

• Afrimaxx : The Nigerian pyro-artist Alex Idoko

• Facebook : Creator and painter @alexpeter_idoko's work is literally FIRE!

• 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.