STATEMENT
I never felt at home in this world, so I am painting my imaginations of home. What home could be; both for me the artist, and you the viewer. Whether as place, person, pattern, philosophy, and or poetry.
I work mostly in acrylic on canvas, and sometimes in mixed media. Employing rough strokes, geometry, text, layered abstractions and landscapes, real and otherworldly figures; faceless and otherwise.
All to trigger one thought: “What is home to me? Do I find it here?”
BIOGRAPHY
Ini Oluwa (b.1994), with the birth name Inioluwa Aboluwarin is a visual artist from Lagos, Nigeria.
His work is marked by themes of identity and belonging. From abstract expressionist landscapes to realistic figurative paintings, his art aims to strike a feeling of home in the viewer.
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.
Ini quit his tech job for professional studio practice in 2016, and currently lives and works from his private studio in Lagos, Nigeria.