Adeyinka Akingade was born in 1981, in Lagos, Nigeria.
His experimenting with different materials is because of to his father, who inspired him since a young age.
Between 2003 and 2008, Akingade studied Art at the Yaba College of Technology in Lagos and graduated in 2008. In the same year, he was one of the 30 selected artists in the “Unbreakable Nigerian Spirit” competition, organized by African Artists’ Foundation in collaboration with Nigerian Breweries. Three years later, in 2011, he won the first prize in the Lagos Black Heritage competition with the painting titled “Walls of Prison Into Fields of Freedom”.
Adeyinka Akingbade has partecipated to local and international art exhibitions, gaining recognition as an artist, and has also decided to share his knowledge with young people by offering training their creative sensibility.