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Olalekan Jeyifous
Lecture
OLALEKAN JEYIFOUS (b.1977) is a Brooklyn-based visual artist whose work re-imagines social spaces that often examine the relationship between architecture, community, and the environment through a speculative, futurist lens. He has exhibited at venues such as the Studio Museum in Harlem, the MoMA, and the Guggenheim Bilbao. He is an Architectural League “Emerging Voices” Fellow, a two-time New York Foundation of the Arts Fellow, and has received grants from the New York State Council and the Brooklyn Arts Council. He recently completed artist residencies with the Drawing Center’s Open Sessions program, and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center and in addition to his extensive exhibition history, has spent over a decade creating large-scale installations for a variety of public spaces.