Blue Dive
- Artist: Tunji Adeniyi-Jones
- Size: 76 x 58 cm
- Price: £3,510
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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).
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).
TUNJI ADENIYI-JONES