Emma Odumade

EMMANUEL ODUMADE WAS BORN IN 2000 IN LAGOS, NIGERIA, WHERE HE STILL LIVES AND WORKS.

A self-taught artist, the practice of Emma Odumade unfolds through hyperrealistic drawings with charcoal on a collage background with colourful painted elements. The images he includes in his works - photos of bronzes from the Benin Kingdom, concert tickets, archival images, cartoon characters and sketches - mix the past, the present and the future. Odumade interrogates transformations in shared spaces and how these mutations impact social life, relationships with others and the environment.

Odumade's work has been featured in international art fairs such as Art X Lagos (Nigeria) and 1-54 New York (USA). It has been part of institutional exhibitions at the African Artists Foundation in Nigeria, at the Kansas City Art Institute in the USA and at the Kunsthal KaDE in the Netherlands. Odumade’s first solo exhibition in an art gallery was held in Paris at AFIKARIS in 2022.