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).



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RECENT WRITING

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

  1. Situational Attempts, The Artist Room, London, UK, 2024
  2. Make yourself at home, Hweg, Penzance, UK, 2024
  3. Manifold Deluxe, Frieze No. 9 Cork Street, curated by Faridah Folawiyo of FF Projects, London, UK, 2023
  4. Home as Corpus, Strada Gallery,  presented by Head of State, curated by Diallo Simon Ponte, New York City, US, 2023
  5. Manifold, curated by Faridah Folawiyo of FF Projects, 2022

@oluwatobilobaajayi_
tobi_ajayi@ymail.com