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  AMIAF 2023 Participating Artist Samson Ogundeji is a Higher National Diploma graduate (2010) from Yaba College of Technology. He is a full-time studio artist and a member of the Society of Nigerian Artists. He is a fact-finder communicating his emotions erupting from socio-cultural, political, and economic situations in the African continent seeking a lasting solution. He started as an expert visualist and has created illustrations for the wedding ceremonies of the daughters of the Nigerian Vice President Mouhammed Namadi Sambo (2013), and also Nigeria' Centenary in ASO ROCK and ICC Abuja (2014). The former studio assistant of master metal sculptor Dr. Adeola Balogun has gained relevance to himself with his unconventional semi-abstract polychromatic works of art. At first glance, the artworks of Samson Ogundeji ignite the senses of the audience. They are striking for their visuals and multiplexes out of the ordinary technique. Samson' participatory artistic method off...

  AMIAF 2023 Participating Artist Ganiyat Abdulazeez Ganiyat Abdulazeez explores a diversity of media spanning pastels, graphites, charcoal, watercolors, acrylics, and oils (being her most favored). In her recent works, she incorporates a distinctive floral motif - believed to have a deep connection with her childhood experiences in her portraits.  This recurring phenomenon in her work is called jatropha multifida (coral plant). The plants are known to have many healing properties, some of which she had benefited from while growing up.  Ganiyat believes that every part of the body needs healing, being poor or rich, white skin or black skin, every mankind yearns for healing, even the animals, in a way or another. She affirms that God created all plants for human and animal benefit. Also concealed in them are diverse healing properties right before the existence of drugs and injections.  Ganiyat Abdulazeez is a visual artist based in Lagos, Nigeria. She graduated with ...

  AMIAF 2023 Participating Artist Azeez Salami's works have been exhibited at Now You See Me, Now You Don't at the Eclectica Contemporary Art Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa,  2022; Ecobank Pan African Centre (Art Exhibit) at the Tim and Carol Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria, 2021; etc.  His spurring artworks are in private collections in Lagos, Nigeria; The Dougan Collection in the United Kingdom; and Somewhere Collection in Austria.  Azeez's investigative style of art and role as a social reformer has earned him a grant with the Sahara Center, Cultural and Tourism Sector Relief Assistance (2020). He is the 2018 First Runner Up for the Nigerian Student Art Competition.  Currently, Azeez is preoccupied with drawing inspiring effects from International chess pieces that he uses to depict the strength, bravery, authority of Africans and her numerous kings and queens from a civilized culture that existed long before the influence of foreigners. Thus, Azeez's artworks...

AMIAF 2023 Participating Artist-Popoola Nurudeen Sponsored by El Anatsui, in 2022, Popoola Nurudeen exhibited an off-exhibition in Senegal's Dak'Art Biennale as a top prize-winner in the Life in My City Art Festival. While his artworks are easy to love, they focus on expressing and stamping the modernity of Africanism. Popoola's practice is centered around creating a reverie visualization of African youths, male or female, as a call of clarion to maintain the identity of their heritage. He is the winner of the World Bipolar Day Art Competition (2018). He has been featured in exhibitions by Didi Museum (Passing on The Touch, 2012); the Lagos Art and Fashion Exhibition (2015); United Nations Information Centre (2017); amongst others. Popoola is the overall best-graduating student in the School of Art, Design, and Printing, Yaba College of Technology Lagos, 2016. Also, in 2014 and 2015, he received the award of Best Student in Painting. He is a former lecturer at The Ultimate...

   AMIAF 2023, Participating Artist Oladele Ogbeyemi   Oladele Ogbeyemi sometimes surreal masterpieces are in the private collections of a Belgium Ambassador and the King of Morocco. In 2011, he won the Ben Enwonwu Foundation (BEF) award in Sculpture. He is a full-time experimental visual artist and a member of the Society of Nigerian Artists (SNA). A mentee of master metal sculptor Fidelis Odogwu and trainee at Universal Studios of Art, Oladele Ogbeyemi has further established himself as a celebrated recycle spokesman through his revolutionary found-metal sculptures. He uses retired household tools and scrap metals to achieve his rhetorical methodology surrounding the social, cultural, political, and economic attitude of Africans towards the reuse of waste and its proper management. His expertise as a draughtsman and painter has greatly empowered his passion as a disciple of recycling to produce abnormal collectibles. Hence, his selection as one of the AMIAFSLOT2023 visu...

  AMIAF 2023 Participating Artist- Adeniyi Adewole Adeniyi Adewole was a participant in the 8th edition of Rele (Gallery's) Arts Foundation Young Contemporaries 2023. At a quick glance, his works strike the viewer as absurd. However, with deep scrutinizing, the paradoxical valuables become comprehensible and more astounding. Tapping into the wisdom of Africa's past and the wokeness of today's contemporary lifestyle of Africans, he sculpts fabulous dramatic narratives. He is one of few visual artists who have mastered the art of dimensional storytelling. Adeniyi's pieces are wild evidence of a disruptive artist intentional disregard for restraints to what is expected or familiar. At the same time, his artistic musings are exceptionally remarkable considering the exotic characteristics his works possess. Objectively new, his works are different from what we are used to. Hence, his selection as one of the 12 beneficiaries of Artmiabo International Art Festival's AMIAF...

                                  AMIAF YOUNG CREATIVES INITIATIVE Artmiabo International Art Festival AMIAF: SEGUN OKEWUMI Young Creatives Initiative watch... Thanks for all the submissions from Young Creatives for this project within the AMIAF Festival.... listen to our 2022 young Artist awardee... Segun Okewumi ARTMIABO INTERNATIONAL ART FESTIVAL 2023 VENUE: EBONYLIFE PLACE VICTORIA ISLAND LAGOS, NIGERIA DATE: 27TH APRIL- 1ST MAY 2023 ARTMIABO

  Artmiabo International Art Festival, 2023 Curatorial Announcement Congratulations Artmiabo International Art Festival, is delighted to announce Yusuf Durodola as the Curator of the Festival for the next 3 years, 2023-2025 Starting with next year's 2023 festival, themed 'Art of Afrobeats' meaning Fine Artists who's works have a feeling of Afrobeats. Yusuf will be bringing in a youthful fresh multi diverse art energy into the festival. He will have full creative licence and support from Artmiabo. As curator he would oversee the artists participation, graphic design, exhibition layout and all that is necessary to create an international art exhibition experience. We at Artmiabo welcome Yusuf to the team Congrats once again! For info on the festival check out https://www.artmiabo.com/.../artmiabo-international-art... Below are some of the reasons we are thrilled YUSUF DURODOLA Yusuf Durodola is a Guinness World Record Achiever (Largest Painting by Number) for Ecole ...