Gallery OKE
Zainab Balogun: Zainab Golden, a visionary artist and fashion stylist, has transformed the runway into a canvas for storytelling. Her work celebrates the essence of Black womanhood, challenging stereotypes and empowering individuals through the art of fashion.
Joy Adeola: Joy Adeola is a Nigerian-Canadian photographer based within the GTA. Through storytelling, she captures the vitality of life and human relationships, documenting their changing rhythms in ways that are dually universal and intimate.
Yinkore: Yinkore navigates her unique lived experiences by exploring themes of intersectionality and representation in the art she creates. Using her pieces as a form of activism and voice to resist the silence people with identities like hers were taught to embrace, in an attempt to secure the portrayal of every identity possible as advancements in art continue.
Naychi: Amaka Naomi Chiazor “Naychi” is a Nigerian-born visual artist, based in Toronto Ontario. She received a Bachelor’s in Humanities from York University and a Diploma from Toronto Film school. She believes strongly in collaboration and creating pieces that elevate characters by building and revealing visually evocative worlds.
Simone Patricia: Afro-Caribbean Artist Simone Patricia is a contemporary artist from the Waterloo Region. Her works depict the diversity within the Afro community and focus on the evolution of said community in a positive light.
Percy: Precious “Percy” Eriamiator is a Nigerian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist. Her most explored mediums are photography, creative direction and textile art. Her photographs intend to spark a conversation within oneself and highlight memories and stories of people and culture.
PIIIIRRE(Adja): PIIIIRRE is a versatile artist whose passion spans creative and artistic direction, photography, dance, fashion design, modeling, and content creation. About a year ago, she delved earnestly into creative direction, to illustrate physically what was going through her mind. Her work predominantly features BIPOC models as their narratives inspire her the most. She aims to encourage others to fearlessly unveil the treasures of their minds. Her ideas were always seen as weird or never understood when she tried to explain them verbally but realized her highest level of intellect is visualization and simple creation.