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Born in 1994, United Kingdom Lives and works in London, UK

EDUCATION

2020-2022
MFA, The Ruskin School of Art, The University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

2017
BFA, University of Newcastle, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK Semester abroad - The University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024
We are Briefly Gorgeous, Southwark Park Galleries, London, UK

2023
Beloved , Take What You Need , Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK

2022
Full Ground, Tiwani Contemporary, Lagos, Nigeria
Ode to Olaudah Equiano, Chapter, Cardiff, UK

2020
The Elephant in the Room, The Breeder Gallery, Athens, Greece

2019
Our histories cling to us, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK As We Were, Bloc Projects, Sheffield, UK

2018
Recollections, Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK Mid-Conversation, Gallery North, Newcastle upon Tyne UK Gatherings, Goldtapped, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Belonging, Morley Gallery, London, UK

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025

Roots in the Sky, (curated by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones), HOME – Greater Manchester Art Centre, Manchester, UK
A Conscious Relation: body/ mind / movement , Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK
Rise Up: Resistance , Revolution , Abolition, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK

2024
Searching for Roots and Expressions, Coutts Bank, London, UK
Conversations, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Being There, The Gallery at No.1 Royal Crescent, Bath, UK
In the Blood, Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK
When We See Us. A Century of Black Figuration in Painting, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
The Body Electric, Larsen Warner Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

2023
A voice answering a voice, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany
Real Families, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
A Bout Des Mes Rêves, Tripostale, Lille, France
When We See Us. A Century of Black Figuration in Painting, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa
Africa Supernova, Kunsthal Kade, Amersfoort, the Netherlands

2022
Life Is Still Life - The Women’s Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, UK

2021
Art, a serious game, Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL), Marrakech, Morocco
Bodies in space, Mirror, Plymouth, UK

2020
Summer Exhibition 2020, Royal Academy, London, UK

2018
The Everyday Political, Cafe Gallery Projects, London, UK
The Accumulation of Things, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, UK

2017
Woon Foundation Prize 2017, Baltic 39, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Degree Show, Hoxton Arches, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Degree Show, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne

SPECIAL PROJECTS

2021
Male PICUS, Hospital Rooms, London, UK
Commission for The Becontree Estate Centenary 2021, London, UK
Art on the Underground, TFL’s commission, Brixton, London, UK

AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2020
The Breeder Open Studio Residency, Athens, Greece

2017
Woon Foundation Prize, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Holy Biscuit Student Open Call, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Bartlett Off-Site Funding, London, UK

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, USA
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
The Government Art Collection, UK
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis MN, USA
Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas TX, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art Al-Maaden, Marrakech, Morocco
Pizzuti Collection, Columbus OH, USA
Perez Art Collection, Miami FL, USA
Harry David Art Collection
JP Morgan, London, UK
Soho House, London, UK
Walter Vanhaerents Collection, Brussels, Belgium
MARe Museum, Romania
Yemisi Shyllon Museum, Lagos, Nigeria
HSBC, London, UK
Olayinka Fisher Collection, Lagos, Nigeria
Dr. Herbert Wigwe Collection, Lagos, Nigeria
Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede Collection, Lagos, Nigeria
The Tate Collection, London, UK