Hakeem Olayinka is a Nigerian-American Washington DC native visual artist. His passion for art came early from watching cartoons, anime, and claymation movies. Later he went on to study at SUNY Purchase’s School of Art & Design and graduated in the fall of 2019.
Hakeem has a focus in painting and drawing though his work often takes on other forms like sculpture and installation. However, the work remains visually cohesive. His work features portraits of blacks figures often using himself as the subject. These figures can often be seen masked, downed, draped or just simply operating in these saturated worlds of color. His palette contradicts the expressions of the figure; they translate frustration through exhaustion.
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