O Yemi Tubi (MOYAT)/ The Sea of Emotions

O Yemi has exhibited worldwide and received awards and recognitions. His works were awarded 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th and 6th places in political commentaries in American Art Awards from 2014 to 2022. He also received the First Round Award with cash in the Art Olympia 2015 International Open exhibition in Tokyo, Japan.

O Yemi Tubi was awarded the 2nd Place Prize in the 2025 “Save Our Planet” Exhibition by Red Bluff Gallery, Corning, California, USA. He was awarded the “Cultural Best Practice Award” with his painting “Message In A Bottle in the 2024 International FL3TCH3R EXHIBITION in Johnson City, Tennessee, USA. UK No Name Collective Art Magazine awarded him the Finalist Certificate for the 2024 Annual Challenge. He was selected as one of the 50 artists winners of the Premier Artist Prize 2024. He was a winner of the Award of Distinction in the Southern Tier Artists 2024 Noteworthy: Music in Art Exhibition. He won the Fletcher H Dyer Award at the 11th Anniversary FL3TCH3R 2023 Exhibition. He was awarded 2nd place in the 2023 Brouhahaart ‘Climate Change’ “Right Here, Right Now” exhibition.” O. Yemi won the First-Place award with his painting "The Chickens' Fight" in the WAR or PEACE 2022 International Competition by Art Impact International. He won the best show at the 2022 Urbanization and Health International Art Exhibition and Competition. Art Show International Gallery awarded him the Talent Prize Award in the PORTRAIT 2022 International Juried Art Competition for his work “PORTRAIT of an Artist. His work, GELE, was awarded the Best Show Award in the CQ64 2021 Winter issue of Creative Magazine. His work “My Mother" won 1st Place (Best in Show) in the International Art Competition by Tall Sequoia Gallery, Toronto, Canada in 2020. His works are part of the top 25 in the Fine Art category of Creative Quarterly Magazine and were awarded the 100 Best Annual 2019 Fine Arts Award Certificate. His works have been published in some Newspapers, Magazines, and art books. His works were published in 2019 ART Habens Art Review, Biennial Edition, published in Issue Vol. 49; 2019 MURZE Arts Magazine, Issue 4, January/February Issue 2019, and 2019 Quotes: Inspirational Quotations / Creative Responses’ book.

O Yemi Tubi's interview and works were featured in Issue 2 of Sfumato Art Magazine! His interview and works were also published in the Collect Art Special Edition of the magazine 'Art & Activism' in March 2025. His works were published in 2020, The March MASS: MATRIARCHY Monthly online Magazine, and His works were published in 2018 ARTtour International Magazine ATIM’s Top 60 Masters of Contemporary Art. Fine Art America published O. Yemi’s winning works in 2017 at www.Huffingtonpost.com. “World’s Best Political Painters” and “World’s Best Celebrity Portrait Artists. His interview and some of his works were published on Africa.com.

O. Yemi is a member of the Artists Artwork, Fine Art America, the Society of All Artists, AERA –the Association Embracing Realistic Art Circle Foundation for the Arts, WCA- World Citizen Artists, International Association of Visual Artists, Visual Artists Association, and New York Artists Equity Association. CollexArt, Artists Talk, UK Artist, LOUPE.

Message in A Bottle - Oil on canvas, 36'’x24'’, 2023

“Then the Lord God placed the man (humans) in the garden of Eden (Earth) to cultivate it and guard it” Genesis 2:15 (GNB version) According to the Bible verse above, humans are supposed to be caretakers and custodians of creatures and planets that God created. Unfortunately, humans are the greatest abusers and the destroyers of the planet Earth, and we are reaping the fruits of our destructive actions through droughts, floods, and other natural disasters. This painting was influenced by the negative reaction of some climate change denials of world leaders to the Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg’s speeches and other people who think that climate change activists are a nuisance that likes to disrupt the smooth running of their day-to-day lives by their activism. These Climate Change denials may wish to put the climate change activists in a bottle, cork it and throw the bottle in the ocean so as not to hear the ranting of the climate change activists and continue their climate-destructive habits. Take out the bottles from the ocean, uncork the bottles, uncork your ears, hearken to the message in the bottles and change the habit that causes climate change. The ocean creatures are choking and dying from the pollution of human waste. Cleaning up the ocean safes ocean creatures and our planet. Hearken to the urgent plea of our children- SAVE OUR PLANET. CLIMATE CHANGE I am an artist, oblige me to paint the picture in words. At an alarming rate, the Rainforest is disappearing. Rain is not falling when it ought to. Sporadically, rainfall in excess; causes deaths and damages. Furiously, Flooding cities, towns, and villages. People and their pets are drowning. Wildlife is not even spared. For God’s sake, Change the habit that changes the climate. Our air and sea are polluted. The wildlife, the common and the rear, On the verge of extinction. In the forest and in the ocean and sea, They choked on human waste. The urban dwellers daily choked in toxic, Emitting from vehicles on our roads. For crying out loud, Change the habit that changes the climate. The industrial revolution of old, good, and great. Industries sprang up here and there. The Great Depression heralded great success. Affluent life comes to town. Disposable life, new style in town. Mountains of disposable waste are everywhere. We are enjoying the luxury at our own peril. Disposable materials may be disposed us, If we don’t change the habit that changes the climate.