Wahab Saheed was born in 1998 in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city and major African financial hub situated along the South Atlantic Ocean. He graduated from the prestigious Yaba College of Technology with a Higher Diploma in Painting in 2019, and currently continues to work as a painter in his studio in Lagos.

Saheed paints portraits of black identities. His portraits of black figures depicted through sharp and speedy gestural mark making in contrast to the planar and almost graphically posteresque composition of the spaces that they inhabit, succeed in strongly emphasizing the physicality and the spirituality that these subjects carry.

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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022

Wahab Saheed: On This Field of Green, Unit London, Mayfair, London, UK

Wahab Saheed: Birthdays are Special, Bill Brady, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA

2021

Wahab Saheed: Some Days Are Diamond, Nanzuka Underground, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023

Sounds of Blackness, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Manila, Philippines

2021

Stockholm Syndrome, Carl Kostyál - Stockholm, Sweden

10 - PM/AM, London, United Kingdom

Stockholm Sessions, Carl Kostyál - Stockholm, Sweden