Olu Amoda
Olu Amoda is a Nigerian sculptor and visual artist who received a Masters of Fine Arts from Georgia Southern University in Georgia, U.S. in 2009. He is the founder of Riverside Art and Design Studios in Lagos, Nigeria and teaches Sculpture and Drawing at the School of Art, Design and Printing at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos. He is best known for his metal sculptural works using industrial debris to depict hybrid animals, humans, and flora. His work explores “the relations between mass industry and organic agriscience,” and his work, Sunflower (2011), earned him the Grand Prix Léopold Sédar Senghor at Dak’Art, the 11th Biennial of the Contemporary African Art in Dakar, Senegal in 2014.
Amoda’s work has been exhibited at prestigious locations like the Skoto Gallery in New York, Tullie House Museum in England, Victoria and Albert Museum in England, the Royal College of Art, London and many other places across the world.
