Oluwasanmi Adesiyan

Oluwasanmi Adesiyan is a self-taught figurative artist from Ekiti State, Nigeria. He is a graduate
of the prestigious Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife,Nigeria where he studied Food Science and
Technology. He lives in Lagos, Nigeria from where he makes his drawings. His journey into art
was borne from his love for drawing and an influence from his uncle who is also a renowned
artist. .

He took interest in drawing portraits just for fun but soon began to get commendations
and interest from people around. Despite having no formal training, he keeps working to become
an interesting contemporary artist. He employs ink on paper as a medium to express fond
memories of children while growing up and has learned to work with other media such as water
colour, wax crayon, acrylic and other media. Emoting through the ranging thickness of his
scribbling, Sanmi finds harmony in crooked lines

His art has caught the attention of art collectors and he has some of his works sold to private art
collectors in and out of Nigeria.