Available Works

Biography

Sola Olulode (b.1996, UK) is a visual artist whose figurative paintings portray a nuanced and tender vision of relationships and intimacy.
Sola aims to overlay, deepen, and reflect the identities of the black womxn she depicts rather than simplify and register them as a “subject”. Through colour and painterly brushwork, Sola's dexterous
hand employs a range of media: indigo and other natural dyes, wax, oil bar, and impasto lashings of paint. Sola lives and works in London, UK.

Education

BA, University of Brighton, 2016-2018

Diploma, Chelsea College of Arts, 2015-2016

Press

2020, Online Art Auction Art&Co To Raise Millions For Charities And Those Affected By Covid-19, Sovereign Magazine

2020, Black Artist In London: 1 on 1 w/ Sola, She's Single

2020, Depictions Of Queer Black Love For The Digital Age, ContemporaryAnd

2020, British-Nigerian Artist Sola Olulode Solo Exhibition ‘Where the Ocean Meets the Beach’, Fad Magazine

2020, Paintings By Sola Olulode Explore The 'Honeymoon' Phase Of Romance, Creative Boom

2019, Studio Visit: Sola Olulode, Boundary

2019, These Black Artists Are Making Beautiful, Affordable Art, Nylon

2018, Evening Standard Art Prize 2018: The 10 Shortlisted Artists In The Running For £10k Prize, Evening Standard

2018, Five Brilliant Young Artists To Look Out For At The Affordable Art Fair, Country Life

2018, Black Blossoms - Black Female Artists You Should Be Following, Virgin

2018, The Alternative Graduate Show Liberating Black, Queer Artists, i-D

2018, BBZ BLK BK: Alternative Graduate Show = #BLACKEXCELLENCE, Shades Of Noir

2018, Inviting, Welcoming & Warm: BBZ & SYFU’s Alternative Graduate Show, Ocean Africa

2018, Sola Olulode, Dazed and Confused

2018, Black Blossoms Exhibition At The Workstation, Sheffield Live

2017, UK-Based Arts Organisation Black Blossoms: “If We Are Going To Heal, Let It Be Glorious, Afropunk

Exhibitions

2020, Where the Ocean Meets the Beach, VO Curations 12th Floor, London, UK (Solo)
2020, The Apocalypse Will Blossom, The Gallery, Online (Group)
2020, Show of Support, Online (Group)
2020, When Shit Hits the Fan, Guts Gallery, Online (Group)
2020, Blacklisted: An Indefinite Revolution, Christie's Education, London, UK (Group)
2020, Tender, Deptford Does Art Gallery, London, UK (Group)
2020, Build Love, Break Walls. Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK (Group)
2020, Twilights of the Idols, Alice Black, London, UK (Group)
2019, Don’t Let Go, Brixton Library, London, UK (Solo)
2019, Hold My Hand, Lewisham Art House, London, UK (Solo)
2019, Guts Gallery Ugly Duck, London, UK (Group)
2019, Here & Now Oxo Tower Wharf, London, UK (Group)
2019, In memory of Naomi Hersi, London School of Economics, London, UK (Group)
2018, Moving in the Bluish Light, Von Goetz, London, UK (Solo)
2018, Colours, Brixton Library, London, UK (Solo)
2018, Save To Photos, Delete Screenshot, Peckham Pelican, London, UK (Group)
2018, 70/70, St. George’s University of London, London, UK (Group)
2018, The Black Current Jam, Ace Hotel, London, UK (Group)
2018, Orbit UK Art Graduates Show, OXO Barge House, London, UK (Group)
2018, BBZ BLK BK: Alternative Graduate Show, Copeland Gallery, London, UK (Group)
2017, Black Blossoms: “If We are Going to Heal, Let it Be Glorious”, The Royal Standard, Liverpool & Sheffield
Showroom, Sheffield, UK (Group)
2017, Black Girl Festival, Kachette, London, UK (Group)
2017, BBZ London Draw & Draw, Pempeople, London, UK (Group)
2017, Bloom The Short Film & Exhibition, Copeland Gallery, London, UK (Group)