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Ayegbayo Damola

Nigerian visual artist and painter

Ayegbayo Damola is a portrait artist and a contemporary painter based in Nigeria.[4][6][8][9]

Ayegbayo Damola
Born(1988-12-29)December 29, 1988
Osun State, Nigeria
MonumentsHis art works is displayed at the heart of Osun State as a monument[1][2]
NationalityNigerian
Alma materObafemi Awolowo University
Occupation(s)Artist, painter
Known forNigerian youngest largest Art Collector [3]
Notable workvision on hope ( uses for a movie titled “HANDLE WITH CARE” BY Jimmy Akingbola documentary,[4] Art is life (Book written by Abayomi Mighty,[5] unconditional love (featured by HarperCollins)[6]
StyleÀBÈFÉ meaning (pleaded to be loved)[7]

Education

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Ayegbayo was born and brought up in Osun State. He obtained Fine and Applied Arts Bachelor’s degree in Obafemi Awolowo University.[10]

Career

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Ayegbayo is Nigerian youngest largest Art Collector with an estimate of 1000 works of painting and visual arts. Damola works convey the power of the beauty of black African women, the reality of life and morals through color and black beautiful women faces. His paintings is publicly displayed at the heart of Osun State as a Monument picture to remember lost heroes.[11][12][3] [7]

His works are in the collections of organisations such as KPMG, Super Sports TV,Standard Chartered Bank among others.[13]The artist painting has been exhibited nationally, in the United Kingdom and United States. Also, his works have been acquired by private collectors like Jimmy Akingbola, Marcus Gardley,Jean-Michel Basquiat sister Lisane basquiat etc and auctions by online art houses such as Liveauctioneers, Bidhaus and Jasper52.[14][15] [16][17] [18]

Harper Collins Publishers LLC USA featured his painting “unconditional love series 2” as a book cover title 'Relations an anthology of African and Diaspora voices' and a book written by Abayomi Mighty title Art is life.[19][20]

Ayegbayo arts has been featured in Non-fungible token (NFT) international projects as the only African artist in the world of women Nft project , Wayfair, Target, and Vincent van Gogh Nft project in partnership with Saatchi Art. [21][22][23][24][25][4] [6]

References

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  1. ↑ "Changemakers The World Needs To Know About". sunnewsonline.com. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
  2. ↑ "Nigerians urged to support young artists". thenationonlineng.net. Retrieved 2022-08-20.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Five Africans making impacts". guardian.ng. Retrieved 2021-10-31.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Nigerian Artist Work Featured In UK Movie Documentary". leadership.ng. Retrieved 2023-06-11.
  5. ↑ Cite error: The named reference G was used but no text was provided for refs named (see the help page).
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "Beauty of African women at World of Women NFT art project". pmnewsnigeria.com. Retrieved 2022-06-25.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "State Of Mind". returnonart.com. Retrieved 2023-02-12.
  8. ↑ "Nigerians urged to support young artists". thenationonlineng.net. Retrieved 2022-08-20.
  9. ↑ Tony, Okuyeme (10 January 2024). "Communicating Power, Beauty Of Black African Women". New Telegraph. New Telegraph. Retrieved 17 May 2024.
  10. ↑ "Nigerian artists gaining international recognition". sunnewsonline.com. The Sun (Nigeria). 5 January 2021. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  11. ↑ "ARTWORK REPRESENTS POWER OF THE BEAUTY OF BLACK AFRICAN WOMEN". nbtlive.ng. Retrieved 2021-04-17.
  12. ↑ "Changemakers The World Needs To Know About". sunnewsonline.com. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
  13. ↑ "Adventure Explores Beauty Of Man, Nature". guardian.ng. Retrieved 2021-10-31.
  14. ↑ "I came from a place where artist and art have the least". guardian.ng. Retrieved 2022-11-01.[permanent dead link]
  15. ↑ "My love for visual art is inseparable". sunnewsonline.com. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
  16. ↑ "Jasper52 sets focus on Nigerian artist". liveauctioneers.com. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
  17. ↑ "Numadzi, Alagbe, eight others to feature in Arts from Motherland exhibition in New York". tribuneonlineng.com. Retrieved 2022-09-22.
  18. ↑ "Basquiat King Pleasure". nbtlive.ng. Retrieved 2023-02-12.
  19. ↑ "Davies Okundaye, Shylon, three other Nigerian contempory artists with historical impacts". guardian.ng. Retrieved 2022-12-15.[permanent dead link]
  20. ↑ "Celebrities that has author a book". nbtlive.ng. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
  21. ↑ "Beauty of African ladies at world of women NFT art project". thisdaylive.com. Retrieved 2023-07-28.
  22. ↑ "Meet these eight young influencers making waves on their respective fields in Nigeria". guardian.ng. Archived from the original on 2022-12-16. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
  23. ↑ "Wayfair arts". thisdaylive.com. Retrieved 2023-07-28.[permanent dead link]
  24. ↑ "World of Women's Artfest Starts Today With 'Artfest Winter". binance.com. Retrieved 2023-07-28.
  25. ↑ "Unframed Wall Canvas". target.com. Retrieved 2023-01-20.
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