About

Tami Soji-Akinyemi’s practice explores the agency of marking-making in relation to the shifting contexts of image, language and matter. Systems of knowledge and communication are excavated and reimagined; questioning their value and function, and mining connections between the immaterial and material worlds. 

Her making processes speak to the concerns of a black-feminist perspective, as agentic tools of un-doing and re-making become devices for engaging with potentialities that arise within fragmented and illegible allegories. Informed by her background in fashion, her haptic puncture paintings encode text, symbols and images into material surfaces - creating compositional dynamics of diagrammatic matrices. 

Drawing from disparate subconscious, cultural and archival references; her work asserts, records, transmits and remixes the essence of life in progress in all its hazy complexity.

Primarily working between painting and textiles, her expanded practice includes applications in installation, sculpture and sound.

contact: osojiakinyemi@gmail.com

 
 

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b. 1991 London, UK

Lives and works in London

Education 

2020 -2022 MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London, UK

2010 - 2014 BA Fashion Design, University for the Creative Arts, Surrey, UK

2012 (Fashion Erasmus, Amsterdam Fashion Institute, Amsterdam, DE)

2009 - 2010 Foundation in Art and Design, Central Saint Martins, London, UK

Solo Exhibitions

2023 A. Passage, Commonage, London, UK

Group Exhibitions

2024 Morrison Foerster Art Prize, The Scalpel, London, UK

2024 Ingram Prize Exhibition 2024, Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop, London, UK

2024 Painting (at the moment), 0207 Gallery, London, UK

2024 Stretching the Light, Rele Gallery, London, UK

2024 Premise, Queen Alexandra’s House, London, UK

2024 To Find, To Hold, To Share, Hockney Gallery, London, UK

2024 Curated with: Graham Wilson, Platform Art, (Online)

2023 Subject to Change, Swivel Gallery, New York, US

2022 RCA2022, Royal College of Art, London, UK + Online

2022 RCA x Imperial EDI Portrait Prize Exhibition, Blyth Gallery, London, UK

2021 RCA WiP Show 2021, Royal College of Art, (Online)

Art Fairs

2024 Swivel Gallery @ Artsy Foundations, Online

Residencies 

2023 RCA BLK x Art in Romney Marsh Residency, Dungeness, UK 

Awards/ Prizes 

2024 Ingram Prize - Founder’s Prize

2023 Eaton Fund

2021 RCA x Imperial College EDI Portrait Prize

Talks/ Panels

2023 The Future is No-One’s Property, The Who Gallery, London, UK (panel)

2022 Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK (artist talk)

2022 Royal College of Art, London, UK (artist talk)

Other Projects

2022 The Paintier Podcast, (producer, editor, host)

Collections

The Ingram Collection