As a visual artist, Temitayo Ogunbiyi works with a range of media whose possibilities and distortions she explores through installation, sculpture, collage, and drawing. As an artist living between two continents, Ogunbiyi feels it is essential thing is to produce a work that is always connected to the place of creation. From 2016, she focused her practice on drawing, focusing on the mixing of shapes by inventing unexpected fusions between Nigerian hairstyles with geometric lines and botanical elements inspired by old botanical illustrations.
Recent exhibitions and projects include: 2022 Berlin Biennale (group – 2022), Refuge, 2021 Lagos Biennale, Lagos (group – 2021); Self-Addressed, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles (group – 2021); 1:54 London, 31 Project (group – 2021); Taste!, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Victoria Island Lagos (group – 2021); Artorama, Marseilles, Paris (group – 2021); Imaginaires Émancipé, Manifesta, Lyon Paris (group – 2021); Stop, Listen! CFHILL Art Space, Stockholm, Sweden (group – 2021); Giocherai nel quotidiano, correndo, Madre Museum, Naples, Italy (solo – 2020); Art Paris, 31 Project (group – 2020); Cape Town Art Fair, 31 Project (group – 2020); 2nd Lagos Biennial, Lagos, Nigeria (group – 2019); Women on Aeroplanes, TOR Art Space, Frankfurt, Germany (group – 2019); Capillarité, 31Project, Paris (solo 2020); You will find peace and play among palm trees, Freedom Park Playground, Lagos, Nigeria (solo – 2018); Strange Attractors (a curatorial publication created as part of the 10th Berlin Biennale), Berlin Biennale 10, Berlin, Germany (group – 2018); Talisman in the Age of Difference (curated by Yinka Shonibare), Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (group – 2018); Gallery of Small Things (curated by Bisi Silva), Dakar, Senegal (group – 2018); Women on Aeroplanes, Lagos Edition, Centre for Contemporary Art Lagos, Nigeria (group – 2018). In 2018, she is a recipient of the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship.
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