AAF NYC Fall 2025
Tosin Toromade
Tosin Tòròmade was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and began drawing at a young age, delighting anyone who came into contact with his creative talents. His love in art led him to seek a degree in Fine and Applied Arts. He received his bachelor's degree with honors from Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
He is a seasoned professional artist, a multidimensional art guru, and a teacher who has chosen to express himself using new media such as photography, digital art, and most recently filmmaking, rather than traditional painting and drawing approaches.
He joined the Tender Arts Foundation as an Arts in Medicine fellow in 2019. His art therapy expertise and experience have also aided him in contributing to the therapeutic wellbeing of patients in a number of Nigerian public and private institutions.
He has carved a space for himself as a portrait and figurative artist with numerous successful group art exhibits and a solo exhibition. Through a blend of symbolism, texture, and iconography, he aims to represent the shape, mind, mood, and expression of humanity, as well as the problems that come with existence and survival in Africa.
He is now researching visual art as a means of inspiration for everyone.
Tòrò, as he is affectionately known, is continuously seeking for new ways to capture events and make art through constant investigation of alternative creative materials such as charcoal and coffee.
Passionate art enthusiasts, collectors, and galleries have taken up residence in his works.
Tosin Toromade is based in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria, where he also works on his art.
Cletus Oche
Cletus Oche is a Nigerian multidisciplinary artist best known for creating monochromatic drawings. Working with ink, acrylic paint, charcoal, and graphite, Oche uses his work as a medium for exploring the human condition, philosophy, and better ways of living.
He works around the themes of hyperrealism and surrealism, guided by the belief that truth is the surest path to freedom — and that we must listen to hear her voice.
Toju Clarke
Toju Clarke is a visual artist living and working in Lagos. He studied graphic design at the Yaba College of Technology. He makes graphic art and sgraffito paintings, a technique of painting that involves scratching on canvas.
His works, often large paintings of human busts, examine moods and mental states. Their power lies in how they keep us ruminating on states of mind that we otherwise may not want to ponder on. Joy, anguish, masculinity, and intensity are deftly portrayed. The focus on the human face and bust in his paintings create a hallowed space for human presence and expression.
Uche Edochie
Uche Edochie is a Nigerian artist with 31 years of experience. Edochie has had over seventy national and international exhibitions in Nigeria, U.S.A., Spain, Switzerland, France, the United Kingdom, South Africa and Mali. His works are a response to the challenges of being human in a rapidly changing world.
The works presented at this fair explore two predominant themes: the singularity of life and a measured perspective on existence. Works such as Oneness: A Quiet Place, Guardians and The Singularity delve into the oneness of all consciousness and how caring for the natural world is in fact a matter of self-preservation.
Other works such as People You Know, I Hate that I Needed You, Channeling My Best Self and The Friendship Dilemma explore a measured understanding of existential mechanics — and how life, in all its complications, is not a tragedy happening to us but a series of life lessons happening for our evolution.