Tunji Adeniyi-Jones

Tunji Adeniyi-Jones was born in London in 1992 and lives and works in Brooklyn, New

York. In 2014 he received his Bachelor's in fine arts from The Ruskin School of Art, Oxford

University, UK and in 2017 he was awarded an MFA in painting and printmaking from Yale School

of Art, Connecticut, USA.

Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Deep Dive’, White Cube Hong Kong (2023); ‘Spotlight’, FLAG Art

Foundation, New York (2023); ‘Tranquil Dive’, Morán Morán, Mexico City (2023); ‘Emergent

Properties’, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York (2022); ‘Voix Intérieures’, White Cube, Paris

(2022); ‘Astral Reflections’, Charleston, East Sussex, UK (2021); ‘That Which Binds Us’, White

Cube, Bermondsey, London (2021), ‘Melodic Virtues’, Morán Morán, Los Angeles (2021); 39 Great

Jones Street, New York (2020); ‘Patterns and Rituals’, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York

(2020); ‘Dreams Through Seasons: New Paintings’, The Cabin, Los Angeles (2018); and ‘Flash of

the Spirit’, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York (2017).

Selected group exhibitions include ‘Nigeria Imaginary’, Nigeria Pavilion, 60th Venice Biennale

(2024); ‘When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting’, Kunstmuseum Basel,

Switzerland (2024) and Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town (2022); ‘In Our Time: Selections from the Singer

Collection’, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona (2022); ‘Out of the Fire: The 14th

Dakar Biennale’, Dakar, Senegal (2022); ‘All Things Bright and Beautiful’, Birmingham Museum of

Art, Alabama (2022); ‘Citizens of Memory’, The Perimeter, London (2021); ‘Forms of

Life’, Morán Morán, Los Angeles (2020); ‘A Chance Encounter’, (curated by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones),

Parts & Labor, Beacon, New York; ‘to dream a man’, Clima, Milan (2020); ‘Art on the Grid’, Public

Art Fund, New York (2020); ‘Black voices, Black microcosm’, CF HILL, Stockholm, Sweden

(2020); ‘Young, Gifted and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection’, OSilas Gallery at

Concordia College, Bronxville, New York (2019); Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx,

New York (2020); and Go ‘Figure!’, Eric Firestone, East Hampton, New York (2019).