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 runs a bimonthly book club (Talking to Strangers) and is currently working on a book-length project.



@oluwatobilobaajayi_   //    tobi_ajayi@ymail.com
     



Manifold Lagos, Alara
October 30-November 10, 2024
Lagos, NG

The best of us, ink on paper, 41 x 51 cm, 2024
A 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 
Where edges meet, acrylic on found wood, 62 x 102cm, 2024 (double-sided)
Without what I can not do, acrylic on found wood, 61 x 61 cm, 2024

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