BIOGRAFIA
Ayobola Kekere-Ekun (n. 1993) Lagos, Nigeria. Vive e lavora a Johannesburg in Sud Africa.
PREMI
2021 Absa L’Atelier Award
2018 The Future Awards 2018 Prize for Creativity
The Dean Collection 20 St(art)ups Grant
2016 Rele Art Foundation “Young Contemporaries” Grant
2014 University of Lagos, Convocation Prize
2012 United States Consulate General ‘Women’s History Month’ Art Contest
EXHIBITIONS
2023 Another Life, C+N Gallery CANEPANERI, Solo Show, Milano, IT
Future Fair, Duo Show, Ayobola Kekere-Ekun & Chigozie Obi, New York, USA
Arte Fiera Bologna, C+N Gallery CANEPANERI, Main section, Bologna, IT
2022 Refuge: An Uncommon Home – ABSA Gallery, Johannesburg, RSA
Poetics of Material – Rele Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Perspectives – Thinkspace Projects, Los Angeles, USA
Unity – Volery Gallery, Dubai, UAE
Hand Land, Group Show, curated by Tatiana Martyanova, C+N Gallery CANEPANERI, Milano, IT
MiArt 2022, C+N Gallery CANEPANERI, Milano, IT
2021 Hidden Message – Gallery Func, Shanghai, CN
LAX/ORD III: Growing the Focus – Vertical Gallery, Chicago, USA
The Invincible Hands – Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art, Lagos, NG
Mother of Mankind – ADA Accra x House of Fine Art, London, UK
She and I (solo) – UNIT, London, UK
Get a Load of This! – Daniel Raphael Gallery, London
2020 High Stakes(solo) – Guns and Rain, Johannesburg
Young Contemporaries Alumni – National Museum, Lagos
2019 Making Matter: Materiality and Technology in Nigerian Art – Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art, Lagos
Suffrage – Guns and Rain, Johannesburg, ZA
Imagine the Opposite – No End Contemporary, Johannesburg, ZA
Resilient Lines (solo) – Rele Gallery, Lagos, NG
2017 Idanimo – Terrakulture Gallery, Lagos, NG
In Honour of Professor Bolanle Awe – Museum of the Institute of Africa Studies University of Ibadan, Ibadan
Her Story – Rele Gallery, Lagos, NG
2016 Dysmorphia & Other Thoughts – Ake Arts and Book Festival, Abeokuta
Young Contemporaries – Rele Gallery, Lagos, NG
FIERE
2020 Untitled Art Fair – Miami, USA
2019 Latitudes Art Fair – Johannesburg, ZA
2018 Turbine Art Fair – Johannesburg, ZA
ArtX Lagos – Lagos, NG