Olalekan Jeyifous | Artist
THE ROAD BECAME A RIVER: POSSIBILITIES AND PARALLELS
Jeyifous guides us through his discursive practice and unique professional trajectory, where art, architecture, and the potential of emergent technologies converge. His evocative world-building visions and large-scale public artworks weave narratives of environmental stewardship, mythology, and community, shaped by the polished echoes of historical ideals, contemporary socio-political anxieties, and the uncertainty of our future aspirations.
ABOUT OLALEKAN
Olalekan Jeyifous is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work re-imagines social spaces that examine the relationships between architecture, community, and the environment. His work has been exhibited at venues such as the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Guggenheim Bilbao, and the Museum of Modern Art, where his artwork is featured in the permanent collection of the Department of Architecture and Design. Olalekan was awarded the notable Silver Lion at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale, is a recipient of the 2021 Fellowship by the United States Artists, and is a two-time New York Foundation of the Arts Fellow. He has completed artist residencies with the MacDowell Fellowship, The Drawing Center’s Open Sessions program, and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center. In addition to his extensive exhibition history, he has spent over a decade creating large-scale artwork for a variety of public spaces.
