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SAMSON BAKARE STUDIO
SAMSON BAKARE IN AFRO-CLASSICISM
Samson Bakare is a popular and highly celebrated Nigerian multidisciplinary artist whose work explores African identity, heritage, and the power of representation through painting, sculpture, and design. He is well-known for his vibrant portrayals of dark-toned figures set against dynamic, often floral or richly colored backgrounds, influenced by his passion for East African Coptic art.
In Afro-Classicism, Samson Bakare examines African identity through layered, symbol-rich compositions that merge history, imagination, and
cultural memory — a philosophical practice and aesthetic approach that inspires his works, including the famous “Let This Be a Sign“.
Trained in painting and deeply influenced by classical East African Coptic Art form, Bakare constructs visual narratives that re-center Black presence within timeless, dignified spaces.
His figures, poised between realism and stylization, inhabit luminous environments where past and future converge, evoking both ancestral echoes and contemporary reflection.
For more › explore selected works
ARCHITECTURE OF IDENTITY
““As histories have often been written without us, reclaiming image and presence becomes an act of resistance and renewal. In this space, identity is not fixed—it is remembered, reassembled, and reimagined.”
Bakare attends to this reclamation through bold figurative language and saturated palettes. Expressive eyes, patterned forms, and deliberate textures reference African iconography while
allowing each subject to exist beyond time, gaze, or imposed narrative.
Although each work carries traces of history, Bakare expands and softens their symbolism.
“There is freedom in revisiting the past,” he reflects, “not to relive it, but to transform it.”
— Contemporary Art Discourse
ART IS ESSENCE, ART IS LIFE
HUMANS ARE ARTWORKS,
THEY ARE MOVING SCULPTURAL PIECES
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