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About the Award-Winning Artist - Amina Olajide

Hello! My name is Amina "Aafia" Olajide and I'm the artist of all the art pieces you find here at the Corner of Aafia and Third, LLC. Aafia is a word I've chosen to embody the mission of my artistic practice and studio; the word aafia ('afia) means comprehensive wellbeing or comprehensive goodness. 

I'm an award-winning visual artist whose work bridges tradition and spiritual exploration. My art has been featured in the Fusion Art gallery, owned by an award-winning artist, by way of a juried art competition. The featured piece titled "Warming Touch" is not currently available for sale but join the newsletter to learn when it would be back in stock. If you're interested in viewing the piece, you may view one half of the diptych (art pair) below. The piece was featured in the August 2025 Waterscapes Exhibition. 

I create art that reflects a deep engagement with spirituality, expanding the boundaries of what is traditionally considered Islamic art.

As a Muslim woman scientist, artist, writer, and digital* designer, my creations are multilayered: involving and reflecting multiple contexts to express my unique fingerprint on the world.

*Although I am a digital designer, I don’t prompt AI for any of these art pieces. Each one emerges from my strange, creative imagination, years of understanding (I'm 33 years old and so I obviously predate the modern generative-AI era), and skill to design, compose, and edit.

When you purchase a piece here, you’re helping to support a real original artist and designer, not an AI front.

Everyone’s fingerprint is unique. I’m honored to share an embodiment of mine with you here.

Abstraction, imagination, and iteration play a big role in my artistic process. As a digital artist, a key part of creativity for me, is memory. I think about memory, sensation, feeling, and experience from the dual lenses of my background in neuroscience to my own lived experiences.

Because I grew up spending so much time consuming art and design, the memories of the different roads that have been forged to construct meaning in my perspective cross culture, religion, nature, psychology, and literature. 

I hope my art facilitates the mission embodied by the word, aafia ('afia), and that it facilitates both self-nurturing and other-nurturing. Comprehensive wellbeing.

I am @herownaafia on Instagram if you are interested in viewing the wall art that has been for sale and has been on exhibit. I am @materiapuera and @pueramatter on Instagram if you are interested in what I am currently focusing on, which is wearable art.