TEMITAYO SHONIBARE
Born Nigeria, 1995
Lives and works in London
Education
Goldsmiths, University of London, MFA 2022 (with distinction)
Pratt Institute, New York, BFA 2018
Awards
2025 Circa Art Priza finalist
2021 Bloomberg New Contemporaries Artist
Chelsea Arts Club Trust MA Materials and Research Award
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Studio Chapple, London
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
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
Performance, life, life is a performance, nothing is real, this is a performance, life as performance, performance is life. Photography, the image, visual economy. Btw this is not a poem. Remember? This is a performance, I am an artist. What is real? Public space? Private space, access, public profile, close friends, Instagram. Omg INSTAGRAM. Twitter? Text, language, social interaction, social media. Woww SOCIAL ME-DI-A. Behavioural codes, intimacy, vulnerability, crying, ughhh CRYING. Safe space, space, , digital space, physical space, offline, online, online self, self imagery, selfies. Repetition, the screen, the real, the fake, mirroring, the original, mirroring the original, the copy, mimicking, the copy mimicking. The self, the other, the other self. Looking, looked at, seeing, being seen, observing, observed, observing the observer, viewing the viewer. Did you just take a screenshot? Sha, just don’t forget to subscribe...and like and follow and tag me! Surveillance, the gaze, voyeurism, s-e-x...that spells sex, control, power. The mutha fuckin’ glitch! Okay that’s not how I type, *the mother fucking gliiiiiitch
