Akanji Bolaji is a multi-disciplinary artist born and raised in Lagos/Nigeria. His practice involves painting, photography and mural painting. His artistic piece highlights narratives that surrounds Man and his environment in relation to its cultural experiences and to bring forth the aesthetic quality of his imagination into visual consciousness. His specialization is mainly on painting using acrylic and oil medium to create stories and experience he finds intriguing to represent and he hope to explore sculptural installations using his simplified pop-abstract layered patterns to further his practice.

The artists is inspired in the ideal forms and harmonious compositional styles of mannerist, pop-abstraction and surrealism paintings. His exaggerated approach of his painting is to capture the perfect and imperfection of black beauty; exploring his ideal of beauty in long-neck features as unique philosophy features from Black African Art in its psychology of aesthetics.