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Central to Temitayo Shonibare’s practice is creating critically engaged interventions that reveal the backstage of the indoctrinated performance that is life. Conducted as social experiments, she brings the subjective interiority of daily encounters to public space using her body as the medium. Through staging actions that disrupt general socialised norms, she plays with the imagined boundaries between public and private spaces - mentally, physically and digitally - questioning who is and what makes up the public. She seeks to expand the site of art making from a physically grounded space to a relational encounter between individuals, affecting how viewers-cum-participants experience the work.
Born: Nigeria, 1995
Lives and works in Lagos and London
Lagos
New York
London
POST - DESIGN
AWARDS
2021 Bloomberg New Contemporaries Artist
Chelsea Arts Club Trust MA Materials and Research Award
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 ‘Traces of Ecstasy’, ICA VCU, Virginia, USA
2024 ‘Traces of Ecstasy’, Lagos Biennial 3rd and 4th editions, Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos, Nigeria
2023 ‘Lagos Peckham Repeat: Pilgrimage to the Lakes’, South London Gallery, London
2023 ‘Ripened On a Tree’, Fitzrovia Gallery, London
2022 ‘AGAINST MEDIUM’, The Treehouse, Lagos, Nigeria
2022 ‘Sublime Rage’, 9 French Place, London
2022 ‘Make it up!’, Hasch, Marseille
2021 ‘Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021’, Firstsite Colchester and South London Gallery
2021 ‘HDL’, Xxijra Hii, London
2021 ‘Inter/Intra-action’, no format Gallery, London
2019 ‘Spatial Intervention’, You+Your Friends, Lagos, Nigeria
PERFORMANCEs
2023 ‘I’d rather not go blind’, Overground Train, London
2020 ‘Daily Affirmations #1: Over Breakfast’, Instagram Live, Online
2019 ‘Untitled’, Architecture and Memory Symposium, Lagos, Nigeria
‘So as the sun rises’, Playa Las Ballenas, Dominican Republic
2018 ‘Extraction/Exposure Ladder’, Untitled, Lagos, Nigeria
INTERVIEWS
2023 Alayo Akinkugbe, A Black History of Art for South London Gallery
PUBLICATIONS
2023 DADA Magazine Issue 2
TALKS
2023 An evening with DADA Gallery
PRE - ART
2021 Maxivive, Online
Zine Editor and Layout Design
2020 SeamlessHR Lagos, Nigeria
Office Fit Out
Wallpaper* London
Interiors Assistant
2019 ArtX Lagos, International Art Fair, Lagos, Nigeria
Photographer
Todd Gray LA
Assistant
A Whitespace Creative Agency, Lagos Nigeria
Creative Director Assistant
2018 Murphy Burnham and Buttrick Architects, New York
Junior Interior Designer (2018-2019)
2017 Farshid Moussavi Architecture
Intern
2024 Es Devlin Studio
Junior Associate Designer
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