Adenuga John (Hopex John) is a Nigerian hyperrealist visual artist whose work explores the shifting terrain between identity, liberation and emotional depth. Working primarily with charcoal, acrylic, fabric, and mixed media on canvas, he merges figurative realism with layered metaphor to examine the psychological and spiritual dimensions of the human condition.
 

Drawing from Yoruba traditions, personal history, and contemporary African narratives, John creates figures that exist in states of transition, fragmented, rooted, dissolving, or emerging.

Through recurring symbols such as incomplete forms, silhouettes, birds, and restrained bodies, his work reflects themes of displacement, resilience, and the ongoing search for belonging. Texture, symbolism and material layering function as a visual language for lived experience, where softness meets tension and vulnerability coexists with strength. By intentionally embracing incompleteness, he presents identity not as fixed, but as continuously forming.

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