Hamzah Umar

Born and raised in 1995 in the North Central part of Nigeria. Umar Hamzah is young, enthusiastic and emerging talent in the world of creativity. young and naive, Hamzah faced a lot of challenges growing up and pursuing his dreams without proper motivation and support which lead the young artist diverge from his world. Living in Nigeria and still accommodating a great interest and an undying passion for art, He decides to pick up where He left and pursue his dreams as an Artist.

Never Studied Art in higher institution but decided to go for ARCHITECTURE, something He also has great passion for. He is a self taught artist who has developed his style and passion relentlessly in art, showing interest in a wide variety of art types, He concentrates more on Realism and Hyper-realism style of art with a ball pen.

"Working with a ball point pen has proved tremendously challenging to me way more than other mediums I have tried over the years in achieving realism, among the reasons for this is the inability to smudge and blend, mostly the inability to erase.I immediately fell in love with the distinct inky looks it has and that feeling never gets old."

BS Architecture. Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria
2013 - 2018

solo exhibition. THE SHOWCASE, Wuse II, Abuja, 2019