Shina Ernest Odofin

Odofin Ernest Shina is an expressionist figurative painting artist with a diverse mindset on different mediums and media. Born in Lagos Nigeria on the 21st day of July 1994, a native of Ondo state Nigeria. Shina started his career as an artist in his childhood when drawing cartoons, comics, and pictures from textbooks is a hobby. Portraiture has been his soft spur and cause of the ideas and stories humans' facial expressions tend to create.

After his college education, He proceeded with his education at Lagos state polytechnic for his National Diploma (ND) after which he went for one-year industrial training (IT) program at the universal studios of art in Lagos Nigeria, where he chose to master painting and drawing as a career under the tutelage of several amazing artists(painter) in likes of Mr. Abiodun Olaku, Josh Nnmesironye and so on.

Shina majored in painting at the department of art and industrial design at Lagos state polytechnic for Higher National diploma programs (HND)

He enjoys working with different mediums such as oil colors, acrylic colors, pastels, charcoal, and so on. "I have participated in several notable exhibitions at home and abroad I.e ( October Rain 2020/2022, My dream affordable art fair 2019, Sogal auctions, Next of kin, and so on with my works in local and international collections"