2023
A Coloured Story: Chapter II, Nicodim Los Angeles USA (S)
2022
A Coloured Story, GNYP Gallery, Berlin Germany. (S)
2021
Revolutions per minute: side B, Reiners contemporary art, Marbella / Malaga Spain. (S)
2020
Revolutions per minute: synthesis of time and sound, Galerie Voss Düsseldorf Germany (S)
2019
Irinisi, Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC), Texas USA. (S)
2012
Egberun Maili : One Thousand Mile, Kunsthaus Mettman, Mettman Germany.(S)
2022
SISTERS & BROTHERS. GESCHWISTER IN DER KUNST, Kunsthalle Tübingen Germany. (G)
2021
People / Diversity, Galerie Kovacek & Zetter, Vienna Austria. (G)
2021
Black excellence Black elegance, Ross-Sutton Gallery, Miami USA. (G)
2020
BLACK VOICES: Friend of my Mind, Ross-Sutton Gallery, New York USA. (G)
2019
Art X Lagos with Galerie Voss, Düsseldorf, Germany. (G)
2018
Contemporary Portrait Exhibition, LHUCA Lubbock Texas, USA. (G)
2013-2015
Gruppeneffekt, NRW Bank Düsseldorf, Germany (G)
2009
ITK goes ART, Muenchner Haus der Kunst, München, Germany. (G)
Idowu Oluwaseun was born in 1982 in Lagos Nigeria, and currently lives and works in Houston Texas, USA. He studied Painting at the school of Art Design and Printing, Yaba College of Technology Lagos Nigeria (2006) and holds an MFA from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf Germany under Professor Rita McBride (2013) and also guest student under Professor Tal R. at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf Germany (2009).
He practiced briefly as a fashion illustrator/designer while studying. His interest in fabric remains however, and has since been incorporated into his paintings. This is particularly so in Faceless Minority, a series of enigmatic portraits featuring subjects with their heads wrapped in fabric, their faces completely obscured, but which nonetheless convey their intent via the nature of the fabric, which might be in the colours of a country’s flag, or indicate a particular region by means of its popularity in that region. The fabrics and silencing of the subjects thus serve as oblique references to the social, cultural or political situation in a region.
1982
Born in Lagos, Nigeria lives and works in Houston Texas, USA
2009 – 2013
Study at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf 2013 MFA under Prof. Rita McBride
2007 – 2009
Guest Student at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Prof. Tal R
2000 – 2006
School of Art Design and Printing, Yaba College of Technology Lagos, Nigeria
2022
Art Karlsruhe with Galerie Voss, Karlsruhe Germany. (G)
2021
AKAA Paris with Galerie Voss ,Paris France. (S)
2020
Art Karlsruhe with Galerie Voss, Karlsruhe Germany (G)
2019
ARTX Lagos with Galerie Voss, Lagos Nigeria. (G)