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VICTOR MORAWO (b. 2001) is a young contemporary impasto painter from Oyo state, south western Nigeria. His artistic career started as a self-taught artist during his high school education which fueled his desire to learn art professionally, a move that led him to study art and design from The Ibarapa Polytechnic, Eruwa. Inspired by the works of art master’s such as Rembrandt, Vincent Van Gogh, Henry Taylor, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Kehinde Wiley, Oluwole Omofemi etc. Morawo’s art is inspired by his life experience of humanity, especially social issues faced by human of unique qualities different to the so called “social standard”. This reflects in some of his works including “self-acceptance”, “self-love”, “body-positivity”, “down-to-earth”. He sees art as a way to express himself to the world. Morawo believes “art is for many eyes but for few hearts” hence, he never forsake originality in every of his works, for the few hearts who sees the message. In 2019, he did an internship at the Oluwole Omofemi Studio, after his national diploma program, in a bid to fine-tune his artistic skill set needed to deliver his expression in the best form and also fulfill his potential as an artist in this digital age. Victor Morawo has participated in couple of art exhibitions, one of them is ‘Emergence’ a group exhibition of paintings at Alexis galleries in Lagos, Nigeria. His works are currently in the collections of few individuals such as Kehinde Wiley Collection, Amoako Boafo Collection, in addition to other commissioned projects by the artists over the recent years.