Samuel Semako Vittu (b. 1991) is a Nigerian artist born in Badagry, a coastal town of Lagos. He believes that the face is laced with diverse stories. His work constantly interrogates the exterior of the face as an entry point into larger issues in society with the use of acrylic, oil and charcoal. He fuses portraiture with anthropomorphism, employing bulgy eyes as windows and zoom lens into the happenings, experiences, thoughts, and crisis that goes on in the mind of his subjects.
Samuel comes from a family where an uncle had studied art, and had given him the basic and formidable training during his formative (artistic) years. Those years could be described as one of concerted exposition. As a trained painter and art educator, he holds a Nigerian Certificate in Education from Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education as well as a Bachelor of Art Education in painting from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. As a practicing artist, Samuel works chiefly across painting and drawing. Working with charcoal, oil, acrylic and canvas has been his chosen media to register and visualize his inspiration, ideas and imaginations. The resulting artworks from his usually mixed-media experimentations are figuratively conceptual, suggestive, evocative and formalistic.
Samuel has participated in exhibitions such as Life in my city, Lagos zone at the National Gallery in (2013), he was also a participating artist in the (2019) group exhibition tagged ‘’DREAM’’ at Vivid exclusive art gallery. In 2021, he was part of the exhibiting artist at the Refrigerator poetry online exhibition, On Display, Wielding power at Gallery at the Landmark (2021). Samuel is the 2022 Visiting Fellow at the Noldor Residency.