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 epistemologies. Her writing has appeared in The Architectural Review, Elephant, Worms, and Frieze, 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).
@oluwatobilobaajayi_ // tobi_ajayi@ymail.com
Selected artworks
Untitled (I write because I long to be brought into being, 1), typewriter ribbon ink on paper, 2024, 5.5 x 4”Surviving abstraction through abstraction (to borrow from Torkwase Dyson), Oil paint on paper and tape residue, 2024 Where edges meet, acrylic on found wood, 62 x 102cm, 2024 (double-sided)
The best of us, ink on paper, 41 x 51 cm, 2024A tongue exasperated, ink on paper, 41 x 51 cm, 2024
A rupture of self and a self ‘found’, 39 x 39 cm and 41 x 41 cm,
ink on paper and acrylic on found wood, 2024
Without what I can not do, acrylic on found wood, 61 x 61 cm, 2024
Was It Worth It?, digital print on canvas, 46” by 64”, 2023A Mother’s Plate I, mono screenprint, 8” by 11”, 2021 Where the World Starts and Ends, monoprint and silk-screen, 2021Senseless Activity I, drypoint etching, 2021On the margin the temperature drops a few degrees, edition of 3, 2021-2022On home, silk-screen, edition of 6, 2021
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