(1978 - )
Abdulrazaq Awofeso was born in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1978. A sculptor and installation artist, he now lives and works between Birmingham and Lagos, creating small-scale and human-sized sculptures influenced by both cities. Awofeso has shown his work in major exhibitions, including at the Dakar Biennale (2016); Stevenson in Cape Town (2016), Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (2017–18); MAXXI at the National Museum of 21st Century Arts Rome (2018); Museum Arnhem (2020) and Ikon Gallery (2022). Recent exhibitions of his work have taken place at Museum Arnhem, Arnhem (2023) and at London’s Ed Cross (2023), in a show entitled ‘Broad Streets’ exploring parallel city avenues between Lagos and Birmingham. One of his larger works, Avalanche of Calm (2022), composed of several wooden figures of different sizes that litter the floor below a suspended cloud, was featured in the 2023 South London Gallery exhibition Lagos, Peckham, Repeat: Pilgrimage.
