2023
EDA
A meditation on ancestral memory and the fragmentation of African identity in a rapidly westernized world.
View SeriesNigerian Visual Artist
Photography
Lagos
London
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About the ArtistTosin
Tosin
Junaid
A Nigerian visual artist whose medium is photography. Using portraiture as a tool to explore memory, identity, and cultural preservation — my work examines the gradual erosion of African identity through westernization.
Through carefully constructed portraits, symbolism, light, and texture, I create images that exist between contemporary African life and ancestral memory.
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2022
Instrument & Flesh
An inquiry into the body as both subject and instrument — a site where cultural memory is inscribed and erased.
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2021
Hands That Remember
A homecoming and a reckoning — shown in Lagos, rooted in the cultural conversations that define this practice.
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Ewa Pupa
A study of adorned beauty as resistance — scarlet and ceremony reclaimed as declarations of cultural selfhood.
View SeriesRecognition & Exhibitions
Nikon Middle East & Africa PartnershipCreative Arts Workshop Facilitator
RecognitionEDA & Instrument & FleshCircular Art Space — London, United Kingdom
ExhibitionEDA & Instrument & FleshRoyal Birmingham Society of Artists — Birmingham, UK
ExhibitionHands That RememberAtirira Gallery — Lagos, Nigeria
ExhibitionGet in touch
mrjunayd@gmail.com