Artist: Adulphina Imuede

Adulphina Imuede (b.1992) is a Lagos-based multidisciplinary artist whose work explores healing, femininity, and identity. Growing up in a disciplined military household, she began drawing as a means to express unspoken emotions and find inner calm. Her early fascination with line, texture, and colour evolved into a practice that merges technical mastery with emotional depth.

Working fluidly across watercolor, acrylic, ink, gouache, and pastel, Imuede creates dreamlike figurative compositions that balance softness and strength. Her ethereal characters inhabit intimate worlds—spaces that invite reflection, vulnerability, and self-discovery. Imuede describes her process as therapeutic, believing in art’s capacity to restore, reveal, and connect.

A graduate of the University of Lagos with a BA in Visual Arts, she has exhibited widely across Africa, Europe, and the United States, including solo shows Higher Self (2021) and Phases and Faces (2022) at Wunika Mukan Gallery in Lagos. Her work continues to celebrate the multiplicity of womanhood and the quiet power of introspection.