AMIAF Participating Artist
Sotonye Jumbo is a new-fashioned visual artist from River State, Nigeria. In 2017 and 2018, he participated in Bruce Onobrakpeya's Harmattan Workshop. Sotonye further interned in 2020 at the Bruce Onobrakpeya (art) Foundation.
In 2018, he was selected alongside Anthonia Nneji and Omofemi Oluwole et al
as part of the pioneering TOP TEN finalists of the Next of Kin art competition and exhibition by Thought Pyramid Art Centre.
Sotonye Jumbo's representative pieces are multicultural. Predominantly, each of his characters on canvas is a balanced embellishment of the ensuing cohabitation possibility between individuals and extraterrestrials. The sophisticated half-jovian part person subjects are mostly styled in human clothing, sometimes executing household tasks or just gazing at the onlooker in a cool, funky pose.
A transcendence of consciousness is required to grasp the celestial subjects in his intensely good works that are divergence from mainstream culture.
Sotonye's works are lovely and playful pondering on the relationship that exists between inhabitants on earth and those of the physical universe beyond the earth's atmosphere.
Starting from April 27th to May 1st, 2023- AMIAF guests from around the world will enjoy the space-like works of Sotonye Jumbo.
Thank you to our sponsors: CABAL, PIQL, JCDECAUX, EBONYLIFE PLACE, AND MULTICHOICE.
Can't wait to see you at the festival...
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