Azeez Muritadoh, Adewunmi / Omodunni, Acrylic on canvas, 2025.
Azeez Muritadoh, Acrylic on canvas, 2025.
Azeez Muritadoh Olakunle
Azeez Muritadoh Olakunle is a Lagos-based, self-taught contemporary artist whose practice bridges realism, expressionism, and abstraction. His work explores psychological depth, resilience, and the human experience through symbolic figuration, restrained color palettes, and layered textures, combining realistic form with expressive distortion and abstract elements.
A central focus of his practice is the ongoing Healing series, distinguished by figures bearing a luminous purple blindfold-like strip across the eyes. This recurring motif functions as a metaphor for vulnerability, endurance, and transitional states, emphasizing inner strength and uncertainty rather than resolution.
Azeez began studying Fine Art at Yaba College of Technology in 2014, but his education was interrupted by health and financial challenges. Following a prolonged hiatus, he returned to painting in 2019 with renewed clarity and purpose. His work has since been exhibited internationally, including Artnumber23: New Era (London), Artnumber23 Open Call (Athens, 2022), and the +234 Art Fair in Lagos (2024, 2025).
Azeez Muritadoh, Adetokunbo, Acrylic on canvas, 2025.
"My practice explores psychological depth and human resilience through symbolic figuration and abstraction. Central to my ongoing Healing series are figures marked with a luminous purple strip across the eyes, a motif representing uncertainty, transition, and inner endurance. The blindfold suggests a state of becoming rather than blindness, while purple—associated with spirituality and restoration—anchors the work’s emotional tone. Through layered surfaces, restrained palettes, and considered composition, my paintings dwell in unresolved spaces, inviting reflection on belief, survival, and the quiet persistence of hope."