bio

Kunbi Oshodi is a Black British Nigerian artist working primarily in oil. Self-taught, her practice draws from personal experience, cultural identity, and a long-standing relationship with art that has shifted over time.

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Her paintings place the figure at the centre of the canvas. Surrounding shapes move across the surface, from outlined forms to partially and fully filled areas, reflecting changing ways of seeing, sometimes hopeful, sometimes uncertain, often somewhere in between. This visual language has also become a metaphor for identity, exploring what it means to navigate Black British Nigerian identity and connection to heritage. Influenced by Nigerian Ankara patterns and her mother’s sense of style, colour and geometry play a central role in her work, with complementary shapes set against single-colour backgrounds.

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She is also the founder of THE.CCART, an independent platform focused on showcasing contemporary artists and their work from the African and Caribbean diaspora.