About the artist

Aderemilekun “Oluuji” Olusoga is a Nigerian-born visual artist based in Canada working across painting, installation, and media arts. His multidisciplinary practice explores diaspora as a relational identity, examining the systems of memory that influence how identity is constructed and maintained in the diaspora, navigating the collective tension between the desire to belong and the need to maintain one’s indigenous identity. His work draws from both institutional archives and quieter, everyday forms of archiving that exist in objects, garments, images, and emerging cloud-based systems of memory.

He has exhibited his work across Canada and was one of the artists selected to design concrete bison sculptures in a public art project in Manitoba, an initiative recognized by the Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba. He has received several grants and residencies, including the Scott Leroux Fund for Media Arts Exploration in 2024.

As an active member of Winnipeg’s artistic community and a member of the So Basically collective, Oluuji is committed to fostering dialogue and visibility for African and diasporic artists through collective work, workshops, and collaborative projects.

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