Yusuf Durodola

Yusuf Durodola is a Guinness World Record Achiever (Largest Painting by Number) for Ecole de dessin, Lagos, Nigeria. He is currently a painting lecturer at the Federal College of Education (Technical), Akoka where he groom the young talents. He is the founder/Artistic Director of Artegun Foundation, a platform vision to nurture the creativity of young artists and offer a difference in curative experience strategically to promote art.

He is a change-provoking recycled artist, deeply thoughtful conversational painter, inspired performance artist, distinguished curator, and impeccable creative director. He is one of the most prominent and influential multimedia visual artists in the Nigerian Art Industry.
He was born in Ibadan, Oyo State in 1979 and attended Federal College of Education (Technical) Akoka where he received a Nigerian Certificate of Education and majored in Painting and Graphics. He proceeded to the University of Lagos where he obtained his degree in Visual Arts and attained his Master’s degree from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria. Yusuf is presently a Ph.D research student at the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ogun State, Nigeria.
His absorbing paintings were included in the 2022 Netflix Limited Series: Blood Sisters. They are also widely collected by the Nike Art Gallery in Lagos, Abuja and London, Madlozi Art Gallery, South Africa, Alexis Gallery, Lagos, Perseus Gallery, New York, Shayee Gallery New York, Ashanti Gallery Abuja, Iwalewa Art Gallery Lagos, and private individual collections around the world. His paintings are everlasting archives dedicated to protecting African traditions and mores; Nigerian heritage and culture with particular emphasis on his indigenous background as a Yoruba offspring.