The invention belongs to the technical field of vanadium hydrometallurgy and ionic liquid extraction, and particularly relates to a method for extracting vanadium from an acidic solution by using an ionic liquid [OMIM]BF4. According to the present invention, an oxidant is added into a vanadium-containing solution obtained from the vanadium extraction process of a vanadium-containing mineral to make the low-valent vanadium be oxidized into the pentavalent vanadium so as to obtain a vanadium-containing acidic solution, the vanadium-containing acidic solution and an ionic liquid are mixed, liquid-liquid extraction is performed, the mixing solution obtained after the completion of the extraction is subjected to centrifugal separation to obtain a vanadium-bearing organic phase and a raffinate, the vanadium-bearing organic phase is subjected to back extraction with a back extraction agent, and the mixed solution obtained after the completion of the back extraction is subjected to centrifugal separation to obtain the pure vanadium solution and the recovered ionic liquid; and the method has characteristics of high extraction efficiency, short equilibrium time, rapid layering after extraction, no emulsification phenomenon, and simple operation, wherein the ionic liquid is hydrophobic and is substantially immiscible with water so as to reduce the organic phase loss due to the water phase entrainment or dissolution.