Temitayo Ogunbiyi (born 1984) is a Nigerian-based contemporary artist and curator. She is known for her exhibitions in several museums, the most popular being the playground installed at Italy's Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina in 2020, known as You Can Play in the Everyday, Running.[citation needed]
Temitayo Ogunbiyi | |
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| Born | 1984 Rochester, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Nottingham Columbia University |
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| Known for | Exhibition at the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples, Italy |
| Website | https://www.temitayo.com/ |
Early life and education edit
Ogunbiyi was born in 1984[1] in Rochester, New York.[2] She grew up in Gwynedd and attended Wissahickon High School in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.[2] She earned a BA from Princeton University, New Jersey, in 2006 and later received her master's degree in art history from Columbia University, New York, in 2011.[3] She currently lives and works in Lagos, Nigeria, and has lived there for the past nine years.[2][4]
Career edit
In 2012, her art was featured at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St Louis and the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos.[5] She exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Diasporan Art in Lagos in 2013, followed by exhibits at Tiwani Contemporary, London in 2016 and in the second Lagos Biennial of Contemporary Art in 2019. Her art has also appeared in the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts in Brooklyn, New York, the Perm Art Museum in Russia, the Dom Umenia Bratislava in Slovakia, and the Berlin Art Projects and the Fries Museum in Berlin.[3][6]
Ogunbiyi has constructed three functional playgrounds to date. She built her first one, using both construction materials and conventional household items, in 2018.[7] That year her playground project was featured in a curatorial publication commissioned for the tenth Berlin Biennale.[3] In November 2019, she constructed a playground titled You Will Find Playgrounds Among the Palm Trees for the second Lagos biennial.[7][8][9] The playground was built to represent the voyage of enslaved Africans to Colombia. It led to the commission of her 2020 exhibition in Italy by Kathryn Weir, the current artistic director of the Museo Madre, Naples.[7][9]
The 2020 playground was titled You Will Play in the Everyday, Running (Italian: Giocherai nel Quotidiano, Correndo?) and was installed at the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina (Italian Contemporary Art Museum) in Naples.[8] It features random lines and iron bars which visually reference the home-built body building equipment traditionally improvised by men in Lagos. References to the art of Louise Bourgeois and Tim Burton are used to represent a transport link between Lagos and Naples. The playground also conceptualizes the cooking traditions of the Campania region where the museum is located.[7]
Awards edit
Ogunbiyi is a recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including a Smithsonian Artist in Research Fellowship and a Ford Foundation Fellowship.[3] Ogunibiyi was 2020-21 Digital Earth Fellow[10]
Selected exhibitions edit
- 12th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany (2022)[11]
- You will play in nuance and grow community, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Netherlands (2022)[12]
- Capillarité, 31 Project, Paris, France (2019)[13]
- You Will Find Peace and Play Among Palm Trees, Freedom Park Playground, Lagos, Nigeria (2018)[13]
- Nothing in Nature is Private, Medium Tings Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA (2017)[13]
- A Nightmare's Daydreams, Freedom Park, Lagos, Nigeria (2014)[14]
- Am I a Thief?, the Fries Museum, Berlin (2012)[15]
- Extended Extensions, Lucas Gallery, Princeton University, Princeton (2006)[16]
References edit
- ^ "Ogunbiyi, Temitayo". Art & Artists Files in the Smithsonian Libraries' Collections. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
- ^ a b c "10th Berlin Biennale, Nomaduma Rosa Masilela: Strange Attractors". 10th Berlin Biennale. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
- ^ a b c d "Exhibition Temitayo Ogunbiyi You will play in the everyday, running". museo madre. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
- ^ "Temitayo Umolu-Bio". Artland. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
- ^ "TEMITAYO OGUNBIYI AND HER PLAYFUL VISIONS FOR NAPLES - THISDAYLIVE". www.thisdaylive.com. Retrieved 2024-01-11.
- ^ "Ogunbiyi, Temitayo". !-54 contemporary african art fair. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
- ^ a b c d "TEMITAYO OGUNBIYI AND HER PLAYFUL VISIONS FOR NAPLES". This Day. 19 July 2020. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
- ^ a b "Temitayo Ogunbiyi Biography". mutual art. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
- ^ a b Proctor, Rebecca Anne (8 November 2019). "The Second Lagos Biennial Takes Over a Former Government Building to Imagine What Would Happen If Artists Were in Charge of Our Future". Artnet News. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
- ^ "Fellow - Temitayo Ogunbiyi". Digital Earth. Retrieved 2023-02-17.
- ^ "Temitayo Ogunbiyi". 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. Retrieved 2023-02-17.
- ^ "You will play in nuance and grow community". This is Eindhoven. Retrieved 2023-02-17.
- ^ a b c "TEMITAYO OGUNBIYI". 31 project. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
- ^ Ajao, Adewole (17 August 2014). "Nigeria: Ogunbiyi's Questions and Interactions". allafrica. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
- ^ Kinsman, Houghton (24 July 2015). "Tracing Emerging Contemporary Art Practice in Nigeria". Another Africa. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
- ^ Quiñones, Eric. "Challenging issues of identity in the art world". Princeton University. Retrieved 29 September 2020.