Nigeria
Born in: 1993
Digital art
Born in 1993, Tobi Ibiwoye is a self-taught artist from the Southwestern part of Nigeria. He graduated with a BSc in Archaeology from the University of Ibadan and has since pursued his career as a freelance artist. He started his professional journey as a Photorealism artist in 2015, using pencils and ink as his preferred media; he later developed new techniques such as Miniature art and scribbles (both in monochrome, he eventually began to use colors for some of his scribbles), as well as digital art, which he added to his arsenal of techniques in 2018. Tobi also picked up the use of table salt as a medium.
In a bid to get immersed in the art industry, Tobi moved to Lagos in 2018 to work in a local Art gallery, where he organized a successful exhibition in December of the same year. In August 2019, he displayed some of his notable works at Impart Artist Fair; the first ‘Tech meets Art’ fair in Africa. He has also landed a gig from a prominent UK rap artist named Jammer BBK. Tobi continues to experiment and add on new techniques.
With his works, Tobi aims to inspire and encourage people to be more open-minded to life, to see beyond what their physical eyes are designed to see in their immediate environment, beyond their problems and challenges, and focus more on the positives. He also aims to use his art to get his audience familiar with things that would normally create fear in them as humans, because he believes that humans sometimes fear what they are not very familiar with. Some of his works are either inspired by nature or other artists; such as Mateo Pizarro’s Miniature art.