LECTURE: Olalekan Jeyifous
Monday, October 18, 2021
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Olalekan
Jeyifous
presents
“Process
and
Practice”
Jeyifous
discusses
his
design
and
artistic
practice
and
process
of
examining
contemporary
socio-political,
cultural,
and
environmental
realities
through
the
tradition
of
architectural
utopianism,
from
a
sci-fi
inspired
and
Afro-surrealist
perspective.
About
Olalekan
Jeyifous
Jeyifous
received
a
Bachelor
of
Architecture
from
Cornell
University
and
is
a
Brooklyn-based
artist
whose
work
re-imagines
social
spaces
examining
the
relationships
between
architecture,
community,
and
the
environment.
He
has
exhibited
at
venues
such
as
the
Studio
Museum
in
Harlem,
the
MoMA,
the
Vitra
Design
Museum,
and
the
Guggenheim
in
Bilbao,
Spain.
In
addition
to
an
extensive
exhibition
history,
he
has
spent
over
a
decade
creating
large-scale
installations
for
a
variety
of
public
spaces
and
was
recently
co-commissioned
to
create
a
monument
dedicated
to
Congresswoman
Shirley
Chisholm
as
part
of
the
City
of
New
York’s
“She
Built
NYC”
initiative.
Jeyifous has been a Wilder Green Fellow at the MacDowell Colony and has completed artist residencies with the Drawing Center’s Open Sessions program and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center. He has won numerous awards for his artistic practice and is the recipient of a 2021 Fellowship by the United States Artists.
