Ludovic Nkoth's artistic creations capture the essence of the Black experience with an unparalleled emotional depth that resonates with the diasporic life and the rich history of his heritage. Nkoth’s practice is characterized by a distinctively swirling brush, his use of a layered, vivid palette, and his iconography of figures drawn from both fantasy and memory. Each canvas starts with a wash of pigment that flows in swaths of vivid color, over which Nkoth defines the subject’s posture and features, allowing the initial sprawl to shine through as an inner iridescence. Constructed of fluid, twisting contours, Nkoth’s figures often look captured in the process of formation, reached for as one reaches for a half-collapsed memory or a dream upon waking.

François Ghebaly

New York City

Yaoundé

Basel

Art Basel

Art New York

Marrakesh

1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair

London

MASSIMODECARLO

Downs & Ross

Los Angeles

Turin

Luce Gallery

Jeffrey Deitch

Dallas

Green Family Art Foundation

Merano

Kunst Meran

Ludovic Nkoth

A closer look

White floors

Yesterday

How to surprise a mirror?

What is a window if not the air framed by right angles?

A meditation upon the nothing

The shape of light

System (Yellow) II

Time is the duration of a thought

Views from within

High Notes

Bearing the impossible

Echoing

Soliloquy

Primary