B.1999 Lagos, Nigeria/ Lives and Works in NY

Obi is a Nigerian New York based fine artist. Obi Agwam creates visual summaries from his own journal entries. The goal for the artworks is to create space for people to be more expressive with their own emotions while showing new ways to represent and depict his own experience. The visual language used to engage these portraits are references to his love for animation. The characters exist in a world that pays homage to animation 's extensive, and dark history.

EDUCATION

(2022) Bachelors of Fine Art/ Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY

SOLO

2024 Sweet Lies from Lonely Stars/Harkawik, New York, NY

2023 Boys Don’t Cry/ James Fuentes(Online), New York, NY

2022 Tears from the Bricks(NADA)/ Regular Normal Gallery, New York, NY

2021 A Smile for Tomorrow/ New Image Gallery, Hollywood, CA

GROUP

2022

Mediated Meditation/ Harkawik, NY

2021

Uncle Brother/ Regular Normal, NY

For Your eyes Only/ New Image Gallery, CA

Double Gaze/ Andrea Fine Arts, Rome, Italy 

Hereditary/ Swivel Gallery, NY

House Parte/ Carlye Packer, Palm Springs, CA

PRESS

(2020) Seeing Stars with Emmanuel Agwam / Fashion Institute of Technology Blog

(2020) Obi Agwam And Black Stories of paint/ Royal State of Mind