Dele Adeyemo is a Scottish / Nigerian artist, architect, and critical urban theorist based in London and Lagos. In his creative practice, research, and pedagogy, he interrogates the racialising processes embedded in the production of space. Through drawing, film, and installation, his work employs a transdisciplinary Black aesthetic that explores embodied cultures of movement and circulation to celebrate the spatial imaginaries of everyday Black life in Africa and the diaspora. Adeyemo’s projects have been presented internationally, including the 13th and 18th Venice Architecture Biennales (2012, 2023), the 5th Istanbul Design Biennial (2020), and the 2nd Edition of the Lagos Biennial (2019). In July 2022 he opened his first solo exhibition Wey Dey Move: Imagining New Worlds through Dance and Masquerade at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam. Adeyemo is the recipient of the JAE Fellowship, the Canadian Centre for Architecture & Andrew Mellon Fellowship, and Het Nieuwe Instituut’s Research Fellowship. He is completing a CHASEAHRC funded doctorate entitled “Last Dark Continent” in the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London, and teaches an Architecture Design Studio at the Royal College of Art in London.
