Peju Alatise (b.1975, Lagos) lives and works between Lagos, Nigeria and Glasgow, UK. She is an interdisciplinary artist, architect and author of two novels. She started her professional career as an architect, studying at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Nigeria while running a private art studio. She produces works across various mediums, techniques and materials, including but not limited to paintings, film, installations and sculptures.
In 2017, Alatise was selected as one of the exhibiting artists at Nigeria’s debut pavilion at the Venice Art Biennial. In the same year, Alatise was announced as the winner of the prestigious FNB Art Prize. In 2018, Alatise founded the Alter-Native Artists Initiative, an incubatory artist collective that offers training programs, and residencies to young, emerging artists. In 2020, Alatise was selected as an exhibiting artist for the Venice Architecture Biennale by curator, Hashim Sarkis. Most recently she participated in Frieze Sculpture, London in 2022.
Alatise is a fellow at the National Museum of African Art, part of the Smithsonian Institution and The Smithsonian Institute collects her work. Her debut novel Orita Meta, chronicling the interwoven path of three women, was nominated for the ANA/Flora Nwapa Prize for Women’s Writing in 2006.