Niyi Olagunju

Sculptor

Born 1981, Sagamu, Nigeria, Niyi Olagunju lives and works in Lagos and the Bronx, New York. Olagunju holds a BA Fine Arts (Hons) degree from the University of Oxford, and a MA in Fine Arts, with a specialisation in sculpture from Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas. Before his degree at Oxford, Olagunju served with the British Army from 2002 through to 2006. Work from Olagunju’s Baga Nimba series was shown as part of Get Up, Stand Up Now, a major exhibition celebrating the past 50 years of Black creativity in Britain and beyond, at the Somerset House, London. Another museum showing in 2019 was at the Vestfossen Kunstlabratorium, Oslo, Norway. Olagunju’s sculpture is represented in the permanent collection of the House of European History, Brussels, Belgium.

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works

Baga Nimba (Wood-Chrome)

2019

Wood and silver-nitrate chrome coated aluminum

Baga Nimba (Silver) Chrome

2019

Nickel Plated Brass

Baga Nimba Orange Chrome

2020

Chrome Plated Bronze

Baga Nimba (Gold)

2018

Wood, bronze & gold leaf

Mende (Male)

2017

Sculpture : wood, gold leaf, copper leaf

Untitled VIII

2018

Pen, chalk and gold pen on paper

Ekpiri #24

2017

Metal, gold leaf, cooper leaf, organic materials

Cookie Jar #8

2018

Hand Blown Glass, Gold Leaf on Threaded "Sekere" Seeds