In this body of work, Bukola Orioye employs the top fade hairstyle as a recurring visual lexicon through which he examines identity, cultural agency, and the aesthetics of self-fashioning. Rooted in the visual and historical traditions of Black culture, the…
Life and Culture is a sustained exploration of the everyday as a site of memory, ritual, and becoming. In this body of work, Bukola Samuel Orioye examines the subtle and profound ways culture shapes the human experience, how gestures, aesthetics,…
Inscribed Realities is a visual inquiry into how the human body becomes a vessel for memory, spirituality, and interior transformation. Across this body of work, Bukola Samuel Orioye treats the figure not simply as form, but as an archive; an…
In this body of work, Bukola Samuel Orioye reimagines African figurines as living, contemporary beings; human forms through which ancestral presence is both remembered and renewed. These figures, at times adorned in modern garments and at other times rendered in…
The Crown Series unfolds as a visual meditation on selfhood, ancestry, and the enduring symbolism of the head within African cosmologies. Drawing from Yoruba ontology and wider continental traditions, Bukola Samuel Orioye situates the head not merely as a physical…
Color Silhouette extends Bukola Samuel Orioye’s ongoing investigation into perception, presence, and the unseen, an inquiry that also anchors his recent project, Oju lari, but beneath the surface… (“the eye sees, but beneath the surface lies more”). Rooted in this…