Collection: Olumide Onadipe 🇳🇬

Olumide Onadipe (b. 1982) is a multidisciplinary visual artist whose idiosyncratic sculptures are built using diverse media including plastics. He presents sculptural works which are allusions to socio-political issues. These physical commentaries on events, social customs, and malaises that affect Nigerian society are rarely explicit. In most cases, they vaguely suggest something through their form. In a few others, it is only the titles of the work that open the door to possible interpretations and readings by the viewer. Olumide believes that behind the literary interpretation of objects and events is a multiplicity of encrypted connotations. He is fascinated by textures and environmental themes, and he expresses this fascination through playful iterations. He studied arts and education at the University of Nigeria Nsukka and the University of Lagos, where he graduated with a master's degree in 2012. He has taken part ingroup exhibitions in London, Germany, Ghana, Nigeria and USA. Olumide's major collaborations include an artist residency and Open Studios exhibition with Arthouse Contemporary (2016), Colours of Hope in partnership with the Cancer Foundation (CLWCF), Children Living with Cancer Foundation (2014), American Nigerian Cultural Collaborative Project, US Consulate and Nike Art Gallery Lagos (2013), and Beyond Boundaries, Nubuke Foundation, Accra (2013). He had his 3rd solo exhibition, Connecting The Dots, in 2018, and his works were shown at ART X Lagos (2017); 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair in London (2017); START Art Fair, London (2018); Material Insanity, Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL), Marrakech (2019); as well as Art Context Miami Art Fair in 2019.