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Oluwanbe A Professional Artist Painter

My Art is a reflection of my culture and my immediate environment, an Art piece tells a million or more stories it's beyond the medium it was executed in.

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Born on March 19th in Lagos, Nigeria Oluwanbe hails from Ondo State. He attended the famous Yaba College of Technology, He joined Ara Studio in 2007, where he was trained in the technique of Ara,

He also joined Araism Movement in the same year and debuted in the Araism Movement Exhibitions.
Oluwanbe has been a regular exhibiting Artist  since 2007, in 2010 he was selected among 101 Nigerian Artists in which a book was published in celebrating modern contemporary Nigerian Artists by Mr Ben Bosha a Nigerian publisher based in Columbus USA.
Oluwanbe Amodu works had been Exhibited in  Nigeria, USA and also in Beni Republic.
Amodu is an experimentalist, he had experimented fabrics with Araism style of paintings and also he had employed
papers fabrics leather and some other objects to create beautiful pieces till date this makes him the foremost Araism Artist that will experiment with mixed media and scaled the huddles of the jurors.

He had also created in niche by experimenting in another style of painting without losing the beauty of the Ara style of painting.

Oluwanbe Amodu had impacted knowledge into the lives of the young generation Artist through young Artists programs both in Nigeria and the US he had received several certificates and awards from Creative Connections Arts organizations based in Connecticut.

Oluwanbe Amodu is a donor at Share Your Soles  organization an NGO based in Chicago, that help children in Africa with Shoes.

He had also donated his painting to African Artists Unit against Ebola in Sierra Leon. 

Some of my publications and Some of my patrons. 

Donation of painting and Prints to Drop in the Bucket an American NGO that provides clean water for  Gulu community in Uganda, Africa.

Some News Publications.

1. Saturday Sun August 18, 2007

2. The Nation On Sunday August 5, 2007

3. Sunday Punch April

4, 2010 (Captured the Headline) 4. Daily Independent Wednesday September 8, 2010 (Headline)

5. The Nation Sunday September 12, 2010 (Headline)

6. NEXT on Sunday, Sunday 19 September 2010. (Headline)

7. TELL Magazine November 2010

8, 2010 (Headline)

9. News Dairy Online September 22, 2011

10. National Mirror Nigeria January, 2012

11. Arise international magazine UK. 2012

Book Publication;

Selected among “101 Nigerian Artists a book published by Mr Chukwuemeka Bosah a Nigerian based in Columbus, USA 2012


SOME COMMISSION PAINTINGS  AND SPECIAL PROJECTS;  


1. A 15 Portraits of some important Personalities in the National Assembly Abuja. Nigeria 2008

2. A 30 pieces of Islamic paintings.    

 3. A Life Size Portrait of Governor of Osun State and Wife (Gov. Olagunsoye Oyinlola).  

4.Special Project a painting size of 4ft X 8ft long painting in Araism technique (2009)

5. A 3 Ori Olokun (Olokun Heads)sculptural pieces, for Oyotunji African Village South Carolina USA. In conjunction with Fatai Abdulkareem.(2016)

A 15 “IYAMI ORACLE DECKS”
Illustrations for Miss. Aminat Oladipo. UK (2021)


Selected Exhibitions.

Youths of Our time (2007) Lagos, Nigeria.

 Araism Movement 2 (2007) National Museum Onikan Lagos, Nigeria

Araism Movement 3 (2008) Lagos 

Araism Movement 4 (2008)  Lagos

Beyond Imagination (2008) Lagos

Araism Movement  5 (2009) Mydrim Art Gallery Ikoyi Lagos, Nigeria.
(2009)
Forbidden Fruits (2009) United Kingdom

Araism Movement  6 (2009) National Theater Iganmu Lagos, Nigeria 

Araism Movement  7 (2010) Thought Pyramid Gallery Abuja, Nigeria

Araism Movement  8 (2011) Labaf Lagos Nigeria.            

Araism Movement 10 (2012) Thought Pyramid Gallery Abuja Nigeria.

Araism Movement 11 (2013) Lagos,Nigeria.

Araism Movement 12 (2014) Studio 18 Pembroke Pine South FL. USA.

Araism Movement 13 (2014) Return from Florida Red door Gallery Lagos,Nigeria.

Araism Movement 15 (2016) Nike Art Gallery. Lekki Phase 1 Lekki Lagos, Nigeria.

Araism Movement  17 (2021) Mydrim Art Gallery Ikoyi Lagos, Nigeria 

ART FOR A CHANGE Obra Collective Gallery 2023.Vapa Center Charlotte. NC