Benjamin Olatunji

OLATUNJI BENJAMIN DAMILARE is a Nigerian contemporary painter and a mixed media Artist. He was born in Lagos march 26th where he grew up and followed his passion for Art. He was trained as a painter in the school of art Yaba college of technology in Lagos before he started his explorative research. He did General Art in national diploma and later painting as a specialisation which earned him a Higher National Diploma. While in school, he had the opportunity to meet great artists engaging in collaborative projects.

His work experience with other artist gained him more exposure.
Olatunji is one of the artist that is of the innate transcendentalism of this contemporary world. Although, before olatunji discovered himself as an artist, he was an apprentice under different masters most who where not experimentalists and expressionists but realists in the year 2010. he started out as an impressionist, realist and now an abstract expressionist.
He explores pictorial potential of pure abstraction. He uses a visual language of shape, form, color, and line to create a composition which exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. He arranges various elements in a decorative manner for the expressio...

Higher National Diploma, Yaba College of Technology (2019)

National Diploma, Yaba College of Technology ( 2017)