section_path: Culture/Art
section_name: Art
paragraph_text: Art
  
  The Nike Art Gallery is an art gallery in Lagos owned by Nike Davies-Okundaye. The gallery is probably the largest of its kind in West Africa. It is housed in a five-storey building and has a collection of about 8,000 different works of art by various Nigerian artists such as Chief Josephine Oboh Macleod.
  
  Red Door Gallery specializes in African contemporary art.
  
  The Ovuomaroro Studio and Gallery is one of the oldest art galleries in Lagos.
  
  The Alexis Galleries, owned by Patty Chidiac-Mastrogiannis, are located on Victoria Island. Since its foundation in 2011, Alexis Galleries have been engaged in the presentation and dissemination of Nigerian contemporary styles including; painting, drawing, mixed media, and sculpture. It aims to strengthen and support the Nigerian Art Circle.
  
  In 2002, Lagos was one of the African platform cities for the art exhibition Documenta 11.