Education
2018 MFA (Hons.), Parsons the New School of Design, New York, NY, USA
2015 The Nigerian Law School, Lagos, Nigeria
2014 L.L.B. (Hons.), Babcock University, Ogun State, Nigeria
Solo Exhibitions
2026 Solo Exhibition, de boer gallery, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming)
2025 Invasive Blooms, Montclair State University Galleries, Montclair, NJ, USA
2024 Heartwood, Halsey McKay Gallery, New York, NY
2024 Dawn and Dusk, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield CT, USA
2022 Rockhaven, moniquemeloche, Chicago, IL, USA
Group Exhibitions
2025 Making Moves: A Collection of Feminisms, The Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA
2025 Mami Wata, Eastville Museum Museum curated by Superposition Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
2025 THIS IS NOT A RETREAT!, Ford Foundation Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2025 Sands Through an Hourglass, Mrs., Maspeth, NY, USA
2025 Handgemaakt in Amerika, de boer, Antwerpen, Belgium
2025 BUSTED: Contemporary Sculpture Busts, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI, USA
2025 Mining Abstractions, kó, Lagos, Nigeria
2025 All at Once, Reflected Through Glass, NXTHVN, New Haven, CT, USA
2025 Smaller Objects, Larger Pictures, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2025 Paper Room, Halsey McKay Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2024 Saturn Gives Structure to the Dream, Superposition Gallery, New York, USA
2023 Neo-Custodians: Woven Narratives of Heritage, Cultural Memory and Belonging, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha NE, USA
2023 The Glass Show, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2023 A Two Way Mirror: Double Consciousness in Contemporary Glass by Black Artists, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA (traveling museum exhibition)
2023 Between the Seams, PM/AM Gallery, London, England
2023 The Alchemists, Johnson Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA
2023 Death of Beauty, Sargent’s Daughters, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2022 Undercurrents, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2022 moniquemeloche presents…, Lubeznik Center for the Arts, IN, USA
2022 Woman to Woman, Bode Projects, Berlin, Germany
2021 House of Crowns, Phillips, NY, USA
2021 The Meeting Point, RegularNormal Gallery & ARTNOIR, NY, USA
2021 Faces of the Hero: From New York to Athens, Lincoln Center (NYC, USA) and Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (Athens, Greece)
2021 Ebony G. Patterson, Brittney Leeanne Williams, Layo Bright, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
2021 Showfields: Layo Bright & Adama Delphine Fawundu, Showfields, NY, USA
2021 To Heal and Protect, Welancora Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2021 I Am Not A Goddess…Unless I Say I Am, Alliance Française – Mike Adenuga Centre, Lagos, Nigeria
2021 Something About Us, Anthony Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
2020 A Chance Encounter, Parts & Labor, NY, USA
2020 Flat File 2020, Peep Space, NY, USA
2020 A Familiarity That Warms, Flux Factory, NY, USA
2020 Here We Are, BSB Gallery, Trenton, NJ, USA
2020 You Don’t See Me, Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space, NY, USA
2020 Migrations and Meanings in Art, Meyerhoff Gallery at Maryland Institute College of Art, MD, USA
2019 Boiling Point, Superposition Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA Interwoven, BSB Gallery, Trenton, NJ, USA
2019 in the eye of the needle, Tri-tryagain Studio, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2019 Wish You Were Here ‘19,A.I.R.Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2019 Maid in Nigeria, AWCA, Lagos, Nigeria
2018 Through Her Eye, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL, USA
2018 Carry Over: New Voices from the Global African Diaspora, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2018 The Hybrid of Being, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Westbeth Gallery, Chelsea, New York, NY, USA
2018 Growing Pebbles, Sleep Center, New York, NY, USA
2017 Reality Check, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, New York, NY, USA
2016 Art Salon, The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Lagos, Nigeria
2015 Group Exhibition at The Nimbus Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria
Residencies
2025 The Corning Museum of Glass Artist-in-Residence Program, Corning, NY, USA
2024 Ron Desmett Award Residency, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2023 Visiting Artist Residency, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, USA
2023 Visiting Artist Fellowship, UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2022 Laurie Wagman Visiting Artist & AIR at Tyler School of Art, PA, USA
2021 NXTHVN Fellowship, New Haven, CT, USA
2020 Triangle Residency, Brooklyn NY, USA
2020 Flux Factory Artist Residency, Queens, NY, USA
2019 The Studios at MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art), North Adams, MA, USA
2019 Tri-tryagain Studio Residency, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Awards
2025 The 2025 UrbanGlass Gala Artist Honoree, UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2023 Ron Desmett Award for Imagination with Glass, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2021 UrbanGlass Scholarship Award, Decorative Decals
2018 International Sculpture Center Residency, Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton Township, NJ, USA
2017 Beyoncé Formation Finalist Scholarship, New York, NY, USA
Art Fairs
2025 The Armory Show, Javits Center, NY, USA (forthcoming)
2025 NADA New York, Halsey McKay Gallery, Chelsea, NY, USA
2024 The Armory Show, Javits Center, NY, USA
2024 RMB Latitudes Art Fair, BODE Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2024 Art Brussels, Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery, Brussels
2024 Art Dubai, Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2024 Investec Art Fair Cape Town, Group presentation, BODE Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2023 NADA Miami, Group presentation, Booth C 108, Halsey McKay Gallery, Miami, FL
2023 Art Basel Hong Kong, Solo presentation, Booth 3D34, moniquemeloche gallery, Hong Kong, China
2023 EXPO Chicago, Group presentation, Booth 313, moniquemeloche gallery, Chicago, IL
2022 Art Basel Miami Beach, Group presentation, Booth G25, moniquemeloche, Miami, FL
2021 Future Fair, Group presentation, Superposition Gallery
2020 Prizm Art Fair, Group presentation, Noir, Noir: Meditations on African Cinema And Its Influence on Visual
2020 Future Fair, Group presentation (online), Superposition Gallery, The Holiday Market: Art, Objects & Editions
Teaching & Lectures
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