Samson Bakare

b. 1993, Nigeria

Samson Bakare (b. 1993) is a Lagos-born Nigerian painter and sculptor. He graduated from the School of Art and Design at Yaba College of Technology, where he majored in painting. He calls his paintings “time machines”: they depict an African society as it might have been had history taken a different turn, without colonisation and the slave trade. His dark-skinned figures with protruding eyes are painted in bright colours, often against floral backgrounds. His work has been shown in the exhibitions “Counter History” at the Alliance Française in Lagos (2019) and “Occupied Space” in Accra (2020), and in 2023 Dorothy Circus Gallery in London held his solo exhibition “Let This Be A Sign”.

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