Layomi Akinrinade is a visual artist living in Seattle, WA. Raised in Ife, Nigeria, and later working as a software engineer, he channels both experiences into his artistic lens. Driven by instinctive abstraction, his paintings are forged from his wrestling with perception, memory, and resolution. Meanwhile, his photographs capture cultural resilience, urban solitude, and the ways African youth—on the continent and in the diaspora—reshape contemporary media and culture. Through these mediums, Layomi’s work explores the shifting nature of identity, heritage, and progress in a fragmented, globalized world.