Karl Ohiri is a London-born British-Nigerian visual artist based in Helsinki since 2023. His conceptually driven practice draws from his background in visual culture and primarily focuses on the Human condition and the lived experience by probing the attitudes and culture of contemporary society. His diverse practice captures a wide range of human emotions from the light-hearted and humorous to the sorrowful and serious, in a minimalist approach that seeks to create art from the everyday.

Alongside his immediate practice Ohiri is also an archival activist and co-guardian of the Lagos Studio Archives – an artistic research and heritage preservation project that aims to collect, preserve and present the endangered archives of a generation of Lagos based photographers that discarded their film negatives due to a shift from analogue to digital photography.