Originally from Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Tayo Adekunle is a British Nigerian photographer based in London. Working a lot with self-portraiture, she uses her work to explore issues surrounding race, gender and sexuality as well as racial and colonial history. Her work is centred around the reworking of historical tropes relating to the black female body, taking from contexts that include art historical paintings and sculptures as well as 19th century colonial photography. By placing historical imagery in a contemporary context, the relationship between the treatment of the black female body in the past and its treatment in the present day is explored.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Workplace Foundation
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
RSA New Contemporaries 2022 (upcoming).
2021
SSA 123rd Annual Exhibition.
Touch: The Politics of Physicality - ACall Festival.
Mindshift Exhibition, The University of Edinburgh.
2020
Futureproof 2020, Street Level Photoworks.
COUP DE FOUDRE, Insurgency Gallery and Five Years.
THIS IS TOMORROW CALLING (Wishing you were here), Alt_D at Zembla Gallery.
A Quest That’s Just Begun, Wooosh Gallery with Generator Projects.
Alt_D Alternative Graduate Showcase (Online).
Buffering… Final Year Exhibition, Edinburgh College of Art.
2019
She__. Exhibition, Whitespace Gallery.
Butter On Bacon, Hospitalfield, Arbroath.
2018
2018 - Material Dialogues, Fire Station, Edinburgh.
2017
ECA End of Year Exhibition, DOK Space
2021
Workplace Foundation
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
RSA New Contemporaries 2022 (upcoming).
2021
SSA 123rd Annual Exhibition.
Touch: The Politics of Physicality - ACall Festival.
Mindshift Exhibition, The University of Edinburgh.
2020
Futureproof 2020, Street Level Photoworks.
COUP DE FOUDRE, Insurgency Gallery and Five Years.
THIS IS TOMORROW CALLING (Wishing you were here), Alt_D at Zembla Gallery.
A Quest That’s Just Begun, Wooosh Gallery with Generator Projects.
Alt_D Alternative Graduate Showcase (Online).
Buffering… Final Year Exhibition, Edinburgh College of Art.
2019
She__. Exhibition, Whitespace Gallery.
Butter On Bacon, Hospitalfield, Arbroath.
2018
2018 - Material Dialogues, Fire Station, Edinburgh.
2017
ECA End of Year Exhibition, DOK Space
ECA Micro-Residency, Hospitalfield, Arbroath, Dundee
Edinburgh College of Art Degree Show Purchase Prize-2020.
Clason-Harvie Bursary-2020.
Astaire Art Prize 2020-Shortlisted Artist.
Edinburgh College of Art Degree Show Purchase Prize-2020.
Clason-Harvie Bursary-2020.
Astaire Art Prize 2020-Shortlisted Artist.
