Temitayo Ogunbiyi (b. 1984, Rochester, NY) is a Lagos-based artist and curator interested in how commerce, architecture, history and botanical cultures inscribe public and private space. In her practice, Ogunbiyi moves among mediums, forging dialogues between global current events, anthropological histories and botanical cultures. Systems that capture, mediate, and direct the movement of people and matter are recurring subjects of investigation in her practice. Her installation at Frieze Sculpture will coincide with a career retrospective at the Museum Tinguely, Basel (opening 18 October 2023), her participation in the 35th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts (15 September 2023–14 January 2024), her solo exhibition at the Van Abbemuseum (April 2024) and her participation in ‘Lagos, London, Repeat’ at the South London Gallery (5 July–29 August 2023), where she presented a large newly commissioned sculpture and installation.
Recent exhibitions and projects include: ‘O Quilombismo’, HKW, Berlin (2023); ‘The Company She Keeps’, Tiwani Contemporary, Lagos (2023); and the 12th Berlin Biennale (2022). In 2018, she was a recipient of the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship.