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.
Lagos
New York
London
POST - DESIGN
EXHIBITIONS
2019 Spatial Intervention You+Your Friends, Lagos, Nigeria
PERFORMANCES
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
Born: Nigeria, 1995
Lives and works in Lagos and London
Education
Goldsmiths, University of London, MFA 2022 (with distinction)
Pratt Institute, New York, BFA 2018
Awards
2021 Bloomberg New Contemporaries Artist
Chelsea Arts Club Trust MA Materials and Research Award
Group Exhibitions
2024 (forthcoming) ‘Traces of Ecstasy’, ICA VCU, Virginia, USA
2024 (forthcoming) ‘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