Tunji Adeniyi-Jones is a British-born, Nigerian artist whose painting practice grapples with West African mythologies, religion, and ceremonies through a diasporic lens, making images that produce a cultural and iconographic “third space” through which manifold expressions of identity can exist. As a result, Adeniyi-Jones’ floriated paintings often feature androgynous figures dancing through densely-patterned spaces. It is this amalgamation of African, African-diasporic, and European influences—medieval manuscript illustration, 20th century West African painting, the Harlem Renaissance—that informs the artist’s distinct approach to representation and abstraction.

Tunji Adeniyi-Jones (b. 1992, London, England) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He received an MFA in Painting & Printmaking from the Yale University School of Art and a BFA from the Ruskin School of Art at University of Oxford.

Recent solo exhibitions include Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York; White Cube, London, Paris, and Hong Kong; Morán Morán, Los Angeles; and Charleston, East Sussex, UK. He has been included in group exhibitions at Pond Society, Shanghai; Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Phillipines; Aïshti Foundation, Beirut; Gagosian, London; Dakar Biennale, Senegal; ICA Miami, Florida; Public Art Fund, New York; Morán Morán, Los Angeles; The Perimeter, London; Venus Over Manhattan, New York; and Deitch Projects, Los Angeles. Forthcoming exhibitions include the Nigerian National Pavillion at the 2024 Venice Biennale.

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