Olalekan Jeyifous
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PUBLIC INSTALLATIONS:
2020
Wrought, Knit, Labors, Legacies, Waterfront Park, Alexandria, Virginia, Australia
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2020
Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America, MOMA, New York, USA
2019
State Of Flux: Works On Paper, 50 Golborne, London, UK
2018
African Mobilities: this is not a refugee camp exhibition, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
2017
No Longer And Not Yet, 50 Golborne, London, UK
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Pioneer Works, New York, USA
Crown Ether, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Indio, California, USA
BRIC Media Arts, Cafe Installation, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Utopia/Dystopia, Museum of Art, Architecture, and Technology (MAAT), Lisbon, Portugal
Where Is Here, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, California
Art Paris Art Fair, Grand Palais, Paris, France
2016
The Lived City, BRIC Biennial, Weeksville Heritage Center, New York, USA
Making Africa, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Holland
AKAA [Also Known as Africa], Contemporary Art and Design Fair, Paris, France
Where Is Here, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, California, USA
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Somerset House, London, UK
Not My Business, 50 Golborne, London, UK
Making Africa, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
2015
The 2015 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture, Shenzhen, China
Making Africa, Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain
Unveiling Visions: The Alchemy of the Black Imagination, Schomburg Center, New York, USA
Beautiful Decay, The ARC [OLCDC], Opa-Locka, Florida, USA
Making Africa, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
RESPOND, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2014
Uneven Growth, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA
PRIZM Art Fair, Miami Center for Architecture and Design, Miami, Florida, USA
2013
Whisper Down the Lane, Gallery 400, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2012
So Moving, St. Joseph's College Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2011
Dual, Skink Ink Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Motion Sensitive, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2010
The Last Newspaper, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
City Settlements, Blanc Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Ellipsis, Les Moulins de Paillard, Poncé sur le Loir, France
2009
Intricacies, Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, New York, USA
S.P.A.C.E.R., La B.A.N.K. Galerie, Paris, France
2008
Visionaries and Outcasts, Skoto Gallery, New York, USA
The Future as Disruption, The Kitchen, New York, USA
FLOW, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA
2007
Drawn In, The August Wilson Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Corporate collection of CB Richard Ellis
2006
Common Destination, The Drawing Center, New York, New York, USA
Afro-Futurism, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
EDUCATION
Cornell University, School of Architecture, Art and Planning, Ithaca, NY
Bachelor of Architecture: May 2000 [Emphasis on Computer Applications]
GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS/RESIDENCIES
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art: Fall 2016, Artist-In-Residence
Socrates Sculpture Park 2016 Emerging Artist Fellowship
The Drawing Center: Open Sessions,2016-2017, Selected Artist
Headlands Center for the Arts: Spring 2016, Artist-In-Residence
The MacDowell Colony: Winter 2016, Artist-In-Residence,
Architecture
School of Visual Arts: Spring 2015, Artist-In-Residence, Visible Futures Lab
Brooklyn Arts Council Grant: Spring 2008, Community Arts Regrant Program
New York State Council on the Arts:Spring 2006, Individual Artists Recipient
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council: Spring 2005, Artist-In-Residence
New York Foundation for the Arts:Spring 2004, Fellowship Recipient
BOOKS/PUBLICATIONS
Making Africa, Show Catalogue, published by Vitra Musuem, 2015.
FLOW, Show Catalogue, published by Studio Museum in Harlem, 2008.

Harlemworld: Metropolis as Metaphor. Counter Insurgents Dispossess the Natives, 
published by Studio Museum in Harlem, 2004.