Cover of the artist Ayogu Kingsley
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Ayogu Kingsley
Nigeria

Presentation

Ayogu was born on 23 September 1994. He hails from Aji Igboeze North L.G.A. Enugu State, Nigeria. In an interview with BBC Igbo, he said he started painting as a child before developing his style of hyperrealism. In 2021, Ayogu did a painting of Malcolm X the first of his series Icons in the White House which went viral on the internet. This series was displayed in the exhibition "Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)" at Hangar in Lisbon.

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