Jelili Olorunfunmi Atiku is a multimedia performance artist from Lagos, Nigeria, who works with drawing, photography, installation, sculpture, and video. Calling himself a ‘human rights artist’, his sculptures and performances are devoted to the advocacy of human rights, social justice, and egalitarian political practices. He has staged multiple performances which double as political demonstrations against extra judicial killings and campaigns for Nigerian penal and prison reform. Atiku holds degrees in visual art from the Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria and the University of Lagos in Akoka. He is the founder and chief coordinator of the Advocate for Human Rights Through Arts (AHRA), the president of the Movement for Creative Drawing, and the secretary for the Police Community Relations Committee, Ejigbo Chapter (Lagos).
Jelili Atiku
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