VICTORIA ONIOSUN

Victoria Oniosun Erioluwa (born 1998 in Oyo, Nigeria) is a contemporary painter whose work explores inner landscapes, femininity, and the construction of personal and collective identity in today’s society.

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fine and Applied Arts from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife (2022), and a Master’s degree from the University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury, UK. Her practice is primarily expressed through painting.

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Victoria Oniosun develops a highly material and tactile body of work, characterized by thick, layered paint applied with a palette knife, giving her canvases a strong physical presence. Moving between figuration and abstraction, her compositions often depict anonymous figures with deliberately undefined features, alongside evocative landscapes. The body becomes a site of projection — a sensitive territory where emotions, memories, and inner states accumulate.

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Her work questions the place of women, notions of belonging, and the tensions between intimacy and the external world. The landscapes she paints are never purely descriptive; they function as mental spaces — places of refuge, reconstruction, and contemplation. Through a palette dominated by organic tones and subtle contrasts, she constructs a deeply human visual language, leaving space for the viewer’s own interpretation.

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Her work has been presented in numerous international exhibitions and art fairs, including Scope Art Fair Miami (2025), 1-54 Art Fair New York (2025), Art X Lagos (2025), The Hamptons Fine Art Fair, Southampton, New York (2024), and +234 Art Fair Lagos (2024).

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Victoria Oniosun is the winner of the 2024 MANI Art Competition and was selected for the Lantern Art Space Fellowship Program 2024, among other distinctions. The different phases of her practice — from early explorations to her current work — have been shown throughout these exhibitions, revealing a coherent and evolving artistic journey.

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She currently lives and works between Canterbury and Folkestone, United Kingdom.