Olalekan Jeyifous
Installation view for ACE/AAP, 2023. Multimedia, 10 x 52 x 100 feet.
ACE-AAP Systems Triptych, 2023. Digital collage, 4 x 7 feet.
BIOGRAPHY
Born: Nigeria,1977
Resides: Brooklyn, New York
Education: Cornell University, School of Architecture (B.Arch., 2000)
Website: jeyifo.us
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
“Even in Arcadia…,” Art Omi, Ghent, New York.
2023
“SHJ 1X72-1X89,” Sharjah Architecture Triennial 2023, United Arab Emirates.
“ACE/AAP,” Venice Architecture Biennale, Italy.
“Regeneration” (public art installation), Northside Community, Spartanburg, South Carolina.
“Look who's shining again (Oh My My MY),” Design Building Gallery at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
2021
“The Anarchonauts,” Pod Space Gallery, Rockville, Maryland.
“Vista Unveiled” (public art installation), Port Everglades: Midport Garage, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
“Desert in Bloom” (public art installation), Eastside Regional Water Park, El Paso, Texas.
2020
“Wrought, Knit, Labors, Legacies” (public art installation), Site/See 2020, Alexandria, Virginia.
2019
“Made with Love” (public art installation), Eighth Avenue N Line, MTA, Brooklyn, New York.
“The Boom and the Bust” (public art installation), ArtPrize 2019: Crossed Lines, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
SELECTED GROUPS EXHIBITIONS
2024
“Unmonument Brooklyn: City Refuge,” Weeksville Heritage Center, Brooklyn, New York.
2023
“Climate Futurism,” Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, New York.
“Architecture Now: New York, New Publics,” Museum of Modern Art, New York.
2022
“For The Birds,” Brooklyn Botanic Garden, New York.
“Everything Will Be Fine,” Deutsches Technikmuseum, Berlin.
“Measures and Meaning,” Cornell University School of Architecture, Art, and Planning, Ithaca, New York.
2021
7th Athens Biennale: ECLIPSE, Greece.
“The Great Imagination,” Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid.
“RHIZOMES,” Base sous-marine, Bordeaux, France.
“Mothership: Voyage into Afrofuturism,” Oakland Museum of California.
“Liquid Geographies, Liquid Borders,” Venice Architecture Biennale, Italy.
2020
“Living the City,” former Berlin-Tempelhof Airport, Berlin.