Oluwatobiloba Ajayi


is a London-based artist, writer, and Deputy Editor of DADA Magazine, an art publication dedicated to Black artists. Tobi’s work centres on the importance of space within Black feminist epistemologies. She has been studying printmaking for ten years, and her trace prints and prints of traces reference both material and imagined spaces. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from Princeton University and her Masters in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, specialising in Post-war Black British Art. In her writing, she continues to nurture her throughline of care and criticism, and her writing has appeared in PIN—UP, 032c, Elephant, and the Architectural Review, among other outlets.




@oluwatobilobaajayi_   //    tobi_ajayi@ymail.com
     



RECENT WRITING

  1. ‘Infraestudio, Cuba’, Profile, The Architectural Review, 2024
  2. ‘Must-See: Gustavo Nazareno’s Acts of Faith,’ Exhibition Review, Frieze, 2024
  3. ‘So be it, see to it!’, Exhibition Text, Soup Gallery, 2024
  4. ‘LaToya M. Hobbs Traces Intimacies’, Profile, Boston Art Review, 2024 
  5. Book Review of An Alterable Terrain by Rhea Dillon, The Whitney Review of New Writing, 2024 
  6. ‘My Mother’s Plate: A Walking Recipe,’ Essay/Recipe, The Toe Rag, 2024 
  7. ‘Translating Girlhood’, Exhibition Review, Elephant, 2024
  8. ‘Yang’s Residence in Guiliu village’, Building Review, The Architectural Review, 2024
  9. Book Review of Severance by Ling Ma, PIN—UP, 2024
  10. Book Review of JOKE by Talia Chetrit, 032c, 2023

recent GROUP exhibitions

  1. Amphiphrasis (words as objects): Oluwatobiloba Ajayi and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Broodthaers Society of America, Harlem, NYC, 2024
  2. Manifold Lagos, Alara, curated by Faridah Folawiyo, FF Projects, Lagos, NG, 2024
  3. Situational Attempts, The Artist Room, London, UK, 2024
  4. Make yourself at home, Hweg, Penzance, UK, 2024
  5. Manifold Deluxe, Frieze No. 9 Cork Street, curated by Faridah Folawiyo, FF Projects, London, UK, 2023
  6. Home as Corpus, Strada Gallery,  presented by Head of State, curated by Diallo Simon Ponte, NYC, US, 2023
  7. Manifold, curated by Faridah Folawiyo, FF Projects, 2022

Selected artworks