Tayo Adekunle

BIOGRAPHY

Tayo Adekunle (b. 1997) is a Nigerian-British visual artist from West Yorkshire, based in London. Using predominantly portraiture and self-portraiture, her work explores issues surrounding race, gender and sexuality. In an interrogation of racial and colonial history, her work is centered around reworking tropes and narratives about black people and black culture. Tayo received her BA(Hons) in Photography at Edinburgh College of Art in 2020. Since then she has been an artist in residence at institutions around the UK including the Southbank Centre in London, Leeds Playhouse in Leeds, Hospitalfield in Arbroath, Dundee and Edinburgh Printmakers in Edinburgh