Expo Chicago 2024: Chicago, USA

We warmly invite you to visit us at Expo Chicago 2024 at Booth 249, where we will be exhibiting a selection of impressive works by our latest residency artist Olasunkanmi Akomolehin.

Olasunkanmi Akomolehin’s naturalist and maximalist portraits of contemporary Black figures are often distorted and heavily backdropped by vibrantly coloured floral patterns. To the artist, creating his works is a meditative practice in which he explores the human condition in all its colourful array. He sees painting as the true expression of the artist’s soul on the canvas. In essence, Olasunkanmi Akomolehin’s paintings intend to liberate confined emotion.

Olasunkanmi Akomolehin, born in 1995 in Lagos, is a Nigerian artist who started his art journey at Rufus Giwa Polytechnic before proceeding to pursue a Higher National Diploma Degree in Painting at Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, Nigeria.