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Artist Bio

Yusuf Durodola is a Guinness World Record Achiever (Largest Painting by Number) for Ecole de dessin, Lagos, Nigeria. He is currently a painting lecturer at the Federal College of Education (Technical), Akoka. He is the founder and artistic director of Artegun Foundation, a platform vision to nurture the creativity of young artists and offer a difference in curative experience strategically to promote art.  He is a change-provoking recycled artist, deeply thoughtful conversational painter, inspired performance artist, distinguished curator, and impeccable creative director. He is one of the most prominent and influential multimedia visual artists in the Nigerian Art Industry.  He was born in Ibadan, Oyo State in 1979 and attended Federal College of Education (Technical) Akoka where he received a Nigerian Certificate of Education and majored in Painting and Graphics. He proceeded to the University of Lagos where he obtained his degree in Visual Arts and attained his Master's degree from the University of Ife, Osun State, Nigeria.  His absorbing paintings were included in the 2022 Netflix Limited Series: Blood Sisters. They are also widely collected by the Nike Art Gallery in Lagos, Nigeria, Madlozi Art Gallery, South Africa, and private individual collections around the world. His paintings are everlasting archives dedicated to protecting African traditions and mores; Nigerian heritage and culture with particular emphasis on his indigenous background as a Yoruba offspring.   His stimulating recycled works have been exhibited locally and internationally. He collaborated with the United States Classical Pianist Pauline Yang in a performance in 2022. Photographs from Yusuf Durodola's performance art have been used as publication covers including Stephanie Newell's Histories of Dirt; Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos. He performed at a special remembrance show of image collage he spearheaded to pay homage to the late master artist Yusuf Grillo. As a revered performance artist, he has shared the stage with other renowned performance artists like Jelili Atiku. His performances have been featured in both historical, physical and virtual art shows including the Obafemi Awolowo University of Ile-Ife 60th Anniversary, Lagos Book Art and Craft Festival, Iwaya Community Art Biennial, UMNY AMA 2020, India.