Ini Oluwa | Visual artist & Creative Director

Ini Oluwa (b.1994), with the birth name Inioluwa Aboluwarin is a self-taught visual artist from Lagos, Nigeria. Ini has had both international and local exhibitions, including one with Augusta Savage Gallery in New York, and a debut solo in 2023 in Lagos, Nigeria; a multi-sensory exhibition titled “Fountainhead’, featuring 100 paintings by the artist. He says: “ There’s only one religion; one ideology; one creed; HUMANITY. How we experience this humanity is very individual; and even as a collective; it is filled with single units of individuality. Even our stories are nuanced by our individual perception. Hence, art must first acknowledge the individual experience. it is with this philosophy that I approach work; studying and embodying several visual languages to represent you and me; the individuals who shape the collective discuss of humanity.” Ini quit his tech job for professional studio practice in 2016, and currently lives and works from his private studio in Lagos, Nigeria