Oluwatobiloba Ajayi


is a London-based artist and writer. She holds a BA in Architecture from Princeton University and an MA from the Courtauld Institute of Art, where she specialised in post-war Black British Art. Informed by anti-, post-, and decolonial theory, her work centres on the importance of space within Black feminist creative practices. Her writing has appeared in The Architectural Review, The Brooklyn Rail, and Worms, among others. Recent group exhibitions include Amphiphrasis (words as objects): Oluwatobiloba Ajayi and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha at the Broodthaers Society of America, NY(2024), and Manifold Lagos at Alára (2024). She is currently working on a book-length project.



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RECENT WRITING
  1. ‘Let’s Play?’, Exhibition Text, Slugtown, 2025
  2. ‘Listening to a Liz Johnson Artur mixtape starring Aweng Chuol’, Dazed MENA, 2025
  3. ‘On (Black) Satire’,  Essay,  Real Review, 2025 (print)
  4. ‘Serpentine Pavilion 2025’, The Brooklyn Rail, 2025
  5. ‘From Fabulation to Fermentation: Walking Through Magical Realism at WIELS’, Elephant, 2025
  6. ‘The Architect Was Always There’, Shade Art Review, 2025
  7. ‘A Shared Appetite: Frank Bowling in conversation with Reginald Sylvester II’, Elephant, 2025
  8. ‘Pressing Mastters’, Essay, The Toe Rag, 2025
  9. ‘A Reciprocal Mapping Exercise’, Essay, Worms/Novembre Magazine, 2025
  10. ‘Beyond the Polemic: Dean Kissick, Jack Self, and Peter Davies Debate the Future of the London Art Scene Over a Pint’, Elephant, 2025
  11. ‘Infraestudio, Cuba’, Profile, The Architectural Review, 2024
  12. ‘Must-See: Gustavo Nazareno’s Acts of Faith,’ Exhibition Review, Frieze, 2024
  13. ‘So be it, see to it!’, Exhibition Text, Soup Gallery, 2024
  14. ‘LaToya M. Hobbs Traces Intimacies’, Profile, Boston Art Review, 2024 
  15. Book Review of An Alterable Terrain by Rhea Dillon, The Whitney Review of New Writing, 2024 

archive
 
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