Matthew Eguavoen

MATTHEW EGUAVOEN WAS BORN IN 1988 IN EDO STATE, NIGERIA. HE CURRENTLY LIVES AND WORKS IN LAGOS.

Matthew Eguavoen attended the University of Port Harcourt, where he attained a Bachelors in Science for Civil Engineering and Structures. In his final year at the university of Port Harcourt, he decided to pursue his passion for creating art through self-study, where he continued his artistic development.

A full-time contemporary painter, he depicts his figurative and portrait subjects using a combination of oil paint, acrylic paint, charcoal, and graphite pencils to document stories that encompass the emotions and demeanor of his muse to the viewer of his work. Eguavoen uses his work to address the societal, economic, and political views across the complex intersectionality that Nigerians face in different facets of life. The constraint of societal ideology about life, on human existence and survival.

As an artist he is deeply concerned about the impact of his work on his immediate environment and the world at large and that is why themes of his art centers around the societal, political and economic imbalance taking over humanity happiness, swamping over the essence of society.

Eguavoen’s works are featured in collections across West Africa, USA, Europe, and North America.