Adeyinka Akingbade
Adeyinka Akingbade (born 1981) is an award-winning painter, photographer, and graphic designer who graduated in Fine Arts from the Yaba College of Technology in 2008, specializing in Painting. That same year, Akingbade’s
eclectic and versatile style drew the attention of the African Artists’ Foundation’s Unbreakable Nigerian Spirit Art Competition in which he emerged as one of the finalists. In 2010 he was selected to take part in the month long CCA Lagos artist residency program, Independence and the Ambivalence of Promise, and the following year he won first prize at the Lagos Black Heritage Festival’s Walls of Prison into Fields of Freedom Art Competition. Akingbade’s experimental photography and mixed media works were featured in the German magazine BORRIOLAH-GHA and in 2014 he exhibited at the 25th AnnualFestivalofthe Arts in Chicago, USA.
In 2016, Akingbade was invited on a 6 week artist residency in Sweden that included a conference on ContemporaryArt at Orebro Art College led by Peter Ekstron, Rectorof Orebro Art College. Akingbade also participated in a 'Train the Trainers' Art Workshop in Orebro Graphic Studio led by Norman Sanden and a group exhibition at the Gallery Astley in Uthesberg. Many of his works are in good collector’s collections in Nigeria and abroad.
In 2019, he participated in the ArtX, Lagos. He has participated in several Art shows both home and abroad. As a food photographer and designer, he has also worked with several advertising agencies and International Culinary Chefs. While working as a studio artist on weekends, Akingbade runs a graphic design consultancy, GNO Studios, and his clients include DDB, Association of Issuing Houses of Nigeria, Proactive Media, CulinaryAcademy, Wimbiz, TruContact, WTech, and SMO ContemporaryArt.