Omoyeni Arogunmati

Omoyeni Arogunmati is an award-winning visual artist born in Nigeria, She is currently Blkarthouse Artist Advisory Board Member. Her love for art began at a young age, this encouraged her to study Fine Art at the Polytechnic Of Ibadan, Nigeria...

Omoyeni Arogunmati is an award-winning visual artist born in Nigeria, She is currently Blkarthouse Artist Advisory Board Member. Her love for art began at a young age, this encouraged her to study Fine Art at the Polytechnic Of Ibadan, Nigeria. Omoyeni expresses her thoughts and feelings through a series of identical portraits painted in an impressionist style with varied degrees of abstraction. Her passions expose fundamental human feelings, exploits, and events, both exterior and intimate. She concentrates on the representation of human facial gestures through abstraction and simplification, making works that reference both impressionism and abstract art trends. The degree of abstraction changes only slightly from painting to painting, which has been a source of contention because it prevents visual conformity. Short and long brush and palette knife strokes filled with a mass dollop of oil or acrylic paint applied on canvas are featured in her work. This technique gives a layered impression and textured look. She uses only a few shades of color, paints a large area with one bright main color, and then emphasizes it with smaller highlights of other primary colors. Her whole palette is composed of black and raw color blends, with the white of her canvas serving as a contrast to the dark tones. Omoyeni's works follow the trends of Carlos Delgado's "Faces of the System" collection, displaying comparable expressions in various facial moods. They are the emotional expression of her inspiration and experiences. Omoyeni was selected for Art Residency 3*3*3"Studio in the Head" in Lagos Nigeria 2020 and she also received First Winner Award Prize at the ART GARDEN, organized by the Embassy of Hungary Trade office in Lagos, 2019 and a letter of recommendation from the Consulate General of Brazil in Lagos, 2020. She has established projected work collections, which are represented by a number of art galleries in both at home and abroad and can be found in private collections and her work forms part of the permanent collections of Embassy of Irish office in Abuja, Nigeria and also a commission work of Betty Holbeton, Founder of Roboflow in Washington DC, USA. Throughout her career, she has participated in several exhibitions both Solo, Group and many award recognition. Recently she had a solo exhibition, Face, People, Places, Adeline Gallery, ilupeju Lagos, Nigeria 2023