Visual Artist living in Lagos, Nigeria.
Artiste plasticienne vivant à Lagos, Nigeria
Selected solo exhibitions
• 2022 : Emotional Terrains. Noldor Artist Residency. Accra, Ghana
• 2018: Loose Woman. A Whitespace Creative Agency. Lagos, Nigeria.
Selected group exhibitions:
• 2023:
About Damn Time. Sabo Art Advisory. Lagos, Nigeria
1-54 Art Fair. New York
The Becoming. Peres Projects. Berlin, Germany
Optics. Ko Artspace. Lagos, Nigeria
Image Impressions. FF Projects. Lagos, Nigeria
• 2022: Austere Imaginary. Ko Art space. Lagos, Nigeria
• 2021:
Retreat Forward, An Exhibition. Yenwa Gallery. Lagos, Nigeria.
motherSun idea*Fund 2021: An Exhibition. Trading floor, New Currency. Toronto.
The Invincible hands. The Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art. lagos, Nigeria.
Making Face. Rele Gallery. Lagos, Nigeria.
The Self Expression Exhibition. Expo Lagos. Lagos, Nigeria.
iDesign Art 7. iDesign by Tola Akerele. Lagos, Nigeria.
• 2020:
Next of Kin. Thought Pyramid Art Centre. Lagos, Nigeria.
iDesign Art 6. iDesign by Tola Akerele. Lagos, Nigeria.
• 2019 :
Dialogue I: Cultural Perspectives. Alliance Francaise de Lagos, Nigeria.
iDesign Art 4. iDesign by Tola Akerele. Lagos, Nigeria.
Awards and Residencies:
• 2022:
Resident artist. The Noldor Artist Residency. 2022.
Contemporary Collage Magazine Awards, 2022.
Runner up: Series, Analogue.
• 2021:
Art X Prize, 2021. Finalist. Art X Lagos
motherSun idea* fund. MotherSun
• 2020:
Tilga Fund for the Arts, Nigeria. Artists in Residence.
Virtual residency. Window Winnipeg. Manitoba, Canada.
Young Contemporaries Boot Camp. Rele Art Foundation.
Workshops:
• 2022: Mapping New Bodies. A workshop with Adeola Olagunju. The Center for Contemporary Art, lagos
Publications:
• 2023: What Kind Of Collage Is That? Katie Blake
• 2022:
Issue 14. Contemporary Collage Magazine
Gida journal.Vol 1
• 2021: Black Collagists: The Book.Teri Henderson
• 2019: Race and Identity in the Modern World. The Republic, Vol3, No 1. Pages - Inner covers, 28, 44
Collections:
• 2022 Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art. Lagos, Nigeria
• The Institute Museum of Ghana
• Sir David Adjaye Collection