Olumide Onadipe is a multidisciplinary visual artist whose idiosyncratic sculptures are built using diverse media, including plastics. Olumide presents sculptural works that allude to socio-political issues. These physical commentaries on events, social customs, and malaises affecting Nigerian society are rarely explicit. In most cases, they vaguely suggest something through their form. In a few others, it is only the title of the work that opens the door to possible interpretations and readings by the viewer. He believes that behind the literary interpretation of objects and events lies a multiplicity of encrypted connotations.

Olumide is fascinated by textures and environmental themes and expresses this fascination through playful iterations. He studied arts and education at the University of Nigeria Nsukka and the University of Lagos, where he graduated with a master’s degree in 2012. He has participated in group exhibitions in London, Germany, Ghana, Nigeria, and the USA. Olumide’s major collaborations include an artist residency and Open Studios exhibition with Arthouse Contemporary (2016), *Colours of Hope* in partnership with the Cancer Foundation (CLWCF) and Children Living with Cancer Foundation (2014), the American Nigerian Cultural Collaborative Project with the US Consulate and Nike Art Gallery Lagos (2013), and *Beyond Boundaries* at the Nubuke Foundation, Accra (2013).

He had his third solo exhibition, *Connecting the Dots*, in 2018, and his works have been shown at ART X Lagos (2017), 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair in London (2017), START Art Fair, London (2018), *Material Insanity* at the Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL) in Marrakech (2019), Art Context Miami Art Fair (2019), *Art and Exception* in Paris (2021), as well as the Investec Cape Town Art Fair in 2021.