Born 1997, Ogbomosho, Nigeria

Lives and works in Iowa City, IA, USA

EDUCATION

2028    MFA in Fiction, Iowa Writers' Workshop, Iowa City, IA, USA

2024    MFA in Painting, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA

2021    B.A Literature-in-English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria (no degree)

2016    Nigeria Certificate of Education (NCE) in Fine and Applied Arts (double major), Concentration in Painting, Emmanuel Alayande College of Education, Oyo, Nigeria

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024    Inverted Blackness, AFIKARIS Gallery, Paris, France

2022    Point of Correction, AFIKARIS Gallery, Paris, France

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND FAIRS

2026    About Face: 250 Years of American Portraits, Mattatuck Museum, USA

2026    RISD Emerging, Featherstone Center of the Arts, Martha's Vineyard, USA

2026    Afroblue, Fondation Blachère, France

2026    INVESTEC Art Fair, Cape Town, South Africa

2025    Art Paris Fair, Paris, France

2024    What Lovers Do, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA

2024    RISD MFA Painting, Twelve Gates, Philadelphia, USA

2024    Annual Graduate Exhibition, Convention Centre, Providence, USA

2024    Sonder, Black Biennial 2024, RISD Museum, Providence, USA

2023    The New African Portraiture, Curated by Ekow Eshun, Kunsthalle Krems Museum, Austria

2023    Contemporary Redefined: Africa Today, Sotheby’s Tel Aviv, Israel

2023    The Sound of Our Souls, Ada Gallery x UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, USA

2023    Painting with Butter, Grad Biennial Exhibition, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, USA

2022    MFA Triennial Exhibition, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, USA

2022    UNLIMITED I, Gallery1957, Accra, Ghana

2022    CLASSICS, AFIKARIS Gallery, Paris, France

2022    1-54 NYC, New York, USA

2022    A Place of One’s Own, Andrea Festa Fine Art, Rome, Italy

2022    AKAA Fair, Paris, France

2021    WOP Art Fair, Kutlesa Gallery, Lugano Exhibition Centre, Switzerland

AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2026    Sonny Mehta Fellow, Iowa Writers' Workshop, USA

2023    Presidential Fellow, Rhode Island School of Design, USA

2022    Artist-in-Residence, Gallery1957, Ghana

2017    Independent Studio Practice, A.S. Ebenezer Studio, Ibadan, Nigeria

2015    Best Student in Drawing Prize, Emmanuel Alayande College of Education, Nigeria

2014    Internship, Busasco Art Gallery, Oyo-Alaafin, Nigeria

LECTURES AND TALKS

2026    “Inverted Blackness,” Artist Talk, The Frederick Douglass Institute and Department of Black Studies, University of Rochester, New York, USA (forthcoming)

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Fondation Blachère Collection, France

Institute Museum of Ghana, Accra

David Adjaye Collection, London - New York

Amir Shariat Collection, Austria

Marcus Gardley Collection, USA

Olym Collection, Tel-Aviv

Elliot Perry Art Collection, USA

Kutlesa Collection, Switzerland

Art Maisonmarios, Germany

Serge Tiroche Collection, Israel

INTERVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS

2024    Inverted Blackness, Boluwatife Oyediran, AFIKARIS Press, Paris

2023    The New African Portraiture, monograph by Ekow Eshun and Amir Shariat

2022    “The Trial”, a short story in The Best of Isele Anthology, Iskanchi Press, USA

2021    Yong Chim and Velériane Gauthier: “Boluwatife Oyediran Has the Art of Questioning the Western Vision of Political and Religious Power” in France24

2021    Olivier Herviaux: “At the Afikaris Gallery, Boluwatife Oyediran Offers a Rereading of History” in Le Monde Afrique

2021    Giorgia Basili: “Individuals, Filters and Reality: The Exhibition in Andrea Festa’s Home Gallery in Rome” in Atribune

TEACHING

2023    Collegiate Teaching, RISD, USA

2023    Painting Session, Brown University, USA

2023    Graduate Teaching Assistant to Craig Taylor, “Painting III”, RISD, USA

2022    Graduate Teaching Assistant to Kevin Zucker, “Painting III”, RISD, USA

2015    Graduate Teaching Practice, “Introduction to Visual Arts”, EACOED Model High School, Nigeria