05/03/2026
's highlights in their series "5 Things I Wish Someone Told Me When I First Became An Artist" by 🎨
"Being told “no” did not end in childhood — it became a constant throughout my adult life. Rather than allowing rejection to define me, I learned to move through it, building my own path and pushing forward until doors opened — or creating my own when they didn’t."
The feature also highlights Móyò's recent show with in Ghana, "The Language of Us", solo show in Milan The Great Boom! opening to the public soon at the and the upcoming .art.biennale where he will have two pieces in the annual fair titled Feed the Machine (2025) and In The Time of Place (2023)—as part of Worlds in the Making at the Republic of Sierra Leone Pavilion during the 61st Venice Biennale.
Known for his raw, layered visual language, Martins constructs psychologically charged compositions where figuration, text, and symbolic fragments collide—bridging Afro-futurism, Yoruba cosmology, diasporic identity, and contemporary experience through abstract pop!
Photo by .liguori
