ABOUT

Osa Seven is an Urban GFX and Graffiti Artist, with a passion for telling stories using contemporary art. Armed with his stencils, spray paint, epoxy, varnish, paper, and boards, he disrupts spaces that allow him express his creativity. Osa’s work ranges from portraits of iconic characters, to scenic images, brand designs, abstract art, and tribal art designs that appeal to the human emotions. Osa tends to doodle on anything he can lay his hands on, as his wandering pen is constantly itching to tell a story.

Osa is a visual communications graduate from the University of Lagos. His background working in brand communications and his eye for detail, allows him to effectively bring brand ideas to life through digital design, and physical brand activations. He has worked with different street art media, and major brands
including, Globacom, MTV Base, Diageo, Chicken Republic, Live Mechanic, and Empire Mates entertainment. Some of his popular work includes the Guinness Africa Special Brand Launch, Live Graffiti Art Performance at Felabration, MTV Base/Guinness #MadeOfBlack Campaign, and the award winning SUPERSTAR Album Art for Wizkid. He also featured in the Microsoft Global Campaign for the 2017 Special Olympics.

He is passionate about giving back to the society, and thus engages in social outreach, and NGO activity across Nigeria. His is co-founder of Socially Africa, where he uses art to promote social causes and raise awareness on various societal issues, through the platform – Art For A Cause. Osa has been a workshop facilitator at both British Council and Goethe Institute Events. 

In 2016, Osa was nominated in the Arts & Culture Category Of The Future Awards Africa. He also featured on CNN’s Africa Voices as an artist disrupting the African space, and giving back
to the society through his art. He has also been featured on BBC, Reuters, Super Sports, and various media.