Olaosun Oluwapelumi

Olaosun Oluwapelumi is a Nigerian visual artist born and raised in Osun State and currently based in Ibadan. She holds a BSc in Geography and Planning Science from Adekunle Ajasin University.
Working primarily with acrylic and oil on canvas, her practice explores identity, emotional vulnerability, and the psychological weight of lived experience within African contexts. Through figurative and expressive abstraction, she investigates how the human body becomes a site where emotion, memory, and societal expectation intersect.

Her work has been exhibited locally and internationally in galleries and art fairs, and continues to evolve as a visual dialogue around presence, healing, and self-expression.

Artist statement
My practice explores the emotional weight of being human within socially defined expectations, with a particular focus on vulnerability, identity, and psychological tension in African contexts.

I am interested in how emotion is often suppressed, especially within gendered and cultural structures that demand strength while denying softness. Through figurative painting, I present bodies that carry this tension visibly, where internal experiences become external form. The figure often becomes a surface of conflict: where ...

Bsc in geography and planning science

*We Believe You’ visual Art Exhibition Lagos 2020.
*The little story exhibition at the Gallery by MUI 2021.
*The Working Artist magazine 2021.
Woman speak out art exhibition at Chicago Urban Art Retreat Center & Women’s Residence 2020.
*Iconic Lagos 2022.
*Visual displace 2022.
"Miniature art fair Lagos at ogirikan 2024.
*New culture exhibition at Ibadan 2024.
*Lagos Lagoon Chronicles at Lagos museum 2025.
* Aimosiko at National Museum Ibadan.