Akhile Ehiforia is a Nigerian painter working in Lagos who previously lived in Ibadan. He is best known online for a 'Rooftops' series of large oil paintings. The series draws on the odd, improvised architecture of the outskirts of Lagos and on the rusted, overlapping corrugated-iron roofs of Ibadan, which seen from above read as a vast, decaying but beautiful landscape. Two works from the series are held by the Thought Pyramid Art Centre in Abuja and appear on Google Arts & Culture: 'Rooftops II' (2013, oil on canvas, 60 x 36 in) and 'Rooftops I' (2014, oil on canvas, 71 x 48 in). The rusty-roof view of Ibadan is a well-known theme in Nigerian painting, and Ehiforia's large-scale treatment places him among younger contemporary painters working on the urban landscape. No birth year, training or exhibition history was found online.
School or movement: Nigerian contemporary urban landscape painting (Ibadan rooftops tradition).
Influenced by Ibadan rusty rooftops, Lagos peri-urban architecture.
