Olu Amoda

Amoda is considered one of Nigeria's leading contemporary artists.^[2] In January 2020, he was announced the artistic director of Now Sculpture 2020 exhibition, by the Sculptors Association of Nigeria, for the 2020 National conference organised by ScAN.^[7][8] Due to his artistic fluidity, Amoda was among the contributors at historic Zaria Art Society (Zaria Rebels) in November 2019, at Victoria Island, Lagos.^[9]

In 2000, he worked as an artist-in-residence in Villa Arson in Nice, France, and at the Bag Factory in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2003. He has also worked at the Appalachian State University, in Boone and at the New York Design Museum, in 2006 and 2010 respectively. He has participated in many exhibitions, including at the Newark Museum in New Jersey, USA,  Museum of Art & Design, USA; Skoto Gallery, New York; Georgia Southern University, USA; Villa Arson in Nice, France, and the Bag Factory in Johannesburg, The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Headquarters, Switzerland; the Didi Museum, Nigeria; the 6th Biennale de L'Art African Contemporain, Senegal; the Newark Museum, Fondation Blachère and the Sindika Dokolo Foundation, the Victoria & Albert Museum, UK, among other places.^[1][10]

Amoda's work was featured in Lend Me Your Dream, a pan-African exhibition organized by the Foundation for the Development of Contemporary African Culture.^[3] in 2017, he established the Riverside Art and Design Studios in Yaba, Lagos.^[11] and started his teaching career in 1987, where he taught Sculpture and Drawing at the School of Art, Design and Printing at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos since.^[1][11][12]

• Index Season ii, June 2017 at Eko Hotels & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos.^[10]

Amoda has received numerous prestigious awards including:

• The Delta State Honor For The Most Innovative Sculptor of The Year.^[4][13]
• In 2014 his work, Sunflower, earned him the Grand Prix Léopold Sédar Senghor prize at Dak’Art, the 11th Biennial of the Contemporary African Art in Dakar, Senegal. An art which explores the connection between mass industry and the organic.^[1][6]