Isabelle Irabor (b. 2000, Oyo, Nigeria) is a multidisciplinary artist and designer working across painting, digital media, and spatial storytelling. Her practice explores the tension between structured forms and raw emotional expression, often through gestural abstraction in acrylics and digital illustration.
Trained in architecture (B.Arch, Obafemi Awolowo University), Isabelle Irabor bridges disciplines—from her research on modernist architecture to her work in set and costume design (e.g., Ominira , Didi Museum Lagos and Nora Mandray’s Fluid, Goethe-Institut Lagos) and art direction (Ayopo Abiri). Irabor’s practice is rooted in material experimentation, from the tactility of acrylics to the precision of digital illustration and the craftmanship of set and costume design. She co-founded Chaotic Good Design Studio, where she merges visual art with socially driven design projects. Her research on The Residential as Modern Architecture in Obafemi Awolowo University, 1962–1980 informs her artistic inquiry into how built environments shape (and fracture) personal narratives.
Recent exhibitions include New Culture Collection (Ibadan, 2024), The Intersection of Art and Architecture (Ife, 2023) and Arnheim Collection 4 (Ibadan, 2022). Her illustrations have appeared in Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine and the Kings & Queens series (Kunda Kids).
Currently, she is developing new works that interrogate her relationship to her womanhood, identity and environment.
Isabelle Irabor (b. 2000, Oyo, Nigeria) is a multidisciplinary artist and designer working across painting, digital media, and spatial storytelling. Her practice explores the tension between structured forms and raw emotional expression, often through gestural abstraction in acrylics and digital illustration.
Trained in architecture (B.Arch, Obafemi Awolowo University), Isabelle Irabor bridges disciplines—from her research on modernist architecture to her work in set and costume design (e.g., Ominira , Didi Museum Lagos and Nora Mandray’s Fluid, Goethe-Institut Lagos) and art direction (Ayopo Abiri). Irabor’s practice is rooted in material experimentation, from the tactility of acrylics to the precision of digital illustration and the craftmanship of set and costume design. She co-founded Chaotic Good Design Studio, where she merges visual art with socially driven design projects. Her research on The Residential as Modern Architecture in Obafemi Awolowo University, 1962–1980 informs her artistic inquiry into how built environments shape (and fracture) personal narratives.
Recent exhibitions include New Culture Collection (Ibadan, 2024), The Intersection of Art and Architecture (Ife, 2023) and Arnheim Collection 4 (Ibadan, 2022). Her illustrations have appeared in Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine and the Kings & Queens series (Kunda Kids).
Currently, she is developing new works that interrogate her relationship to her womanhood, identity and environment.
Isabelle Irabor (b. 2000, Oyo, Nigeria) is a multidisciplinary artist and designer working across painting, digital media, and spatial storytelling. Her practice explores the tension between structured forms and raw emotional expression, often through gestural abstraction in acrylics and digital illustration.
Trained in architecture (B.Arch, Obafemi Awolowo University), Isabelle Irabor bridges disciplines—from her research on modernist architecture to her work in set and costume design (e.g., Ominira , Didi Museum Lagos and Nora Mandray’s Fluid, Goethe-Institut Lagos) and art direction (Ayopo Abiri). Irabor’s practice is rooted in material experimentation, from the tactility of acrylics to the precision of digital illustration and the craftmanship of set and costume design. She co-founded Chaotic Good Design Studio, where she merges visual art with socially driven design projects. Her research on The Residential as Modern Architecture in Obafemi Awolowo University, 1962–1980 informs her artistic inquiry into how built environments shape (and fracture) personal narratives.
Recent exhibitions include New Culture Collection (Ibadan, 2024), The Intersection of Art and Architecture (Ife, 2023) and Arnheim Collection 4 (Ibadan, 2022). Her illustrations have appeared in Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine and the Kings & Queens series (Kunda Kids).
Currently, she is developing new works that interrogate her relationship to her womanhood, identity and environment.