The Artist
Artist Statement
My practice explores memory, identity, cultural inheritance, and the ways we understand ourselves in relation to others. I am interested in what we inherit, what we choose to carry forward, and how inherited ways of knowing continue to shape contemporary life.
Material is central to this inquiry. I work across painting and mixed media, incorporating textiles, stitching, collage, found materials and symbolic forms into layered compositions. Through accumulation, repetition, concealment and transformation, material becomes a way of considering what is remembered, what changes, and what remains.
My Yoruba cultural context is an important point of departure, alongside experiences of movement between places, cultures, generations and ways of seeing. Language, spirituality, family, place and collective memory recur across the work as ways of considering how we construct meaning and belonging.
I see art as both a personal and cultural practice: a way of examining what we inherit while participating in what comes next.
Selected Exhibitions
- 2026Century of ColorSpacs Art, Chelsea, New York
- 2025Mirror, A Visual DialogueYemisi Shyllon Museum of Art, Lagos
- 2025Championing Patronage in Nigerian Art+234 Art Fair, Soto Gallery, Lagos
- 2024Resilient Roots: The Heartbeat of Bed-StuyThe Gallery at Make Manifest, Brooklyn
- 2023Visual Voices: You Feel Me?Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, New York
- 2023Ephemeral RealitiesTribe XX Lab + The Abele Art Foundation, Lagos
- 2022Summer SOULsticeOnyx Fine Arts Collective, Seattle
- 2017[On] Becoming MariamOmenka Gallery, Lagos
Residencies & Fellowships
- 2026Art on the Block FellowshipArt on the Block, New York
- 2026Artist-in-Residence Program — FinalistEli Whitney Museum & Workshop, New Haven
- 2022Fine Arts & Contemporary Practices ResidencySchool of Visual Arts, New York
Collections
- Yemisi Shyllon Museum of ArtPermanent Collection · Legacy of Water, 2025
Talks & Public Programs
- Public ProgramStories in Living LanguagesBrooklyn Children’s Museum, Brooklyn · 2026–Present
- WorkshopMemory MappingYemisi Shyllon Museum of Art + Sterling Bank PLC, Lagos · 2025–Present
- Artist TalkLegacy of Water Artist TalkAdegbola Gallery, Lagos · 2025
- PanelWomen in Art PanelAfricaNXT / NXT.ART, Lagos · 2022
Media & Features