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

2022 Rockhaven, moniquemeloche, Chicago, IL, USA

Group Exhibitions

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

Art Fairs

2022 Art Basel Miami Beach, Booth G25, moniquemeloche, 1 – 3 December, 2022

2021 Future Fair, Superposition Gallery, 9 – 12 September, 2021

2020 Prizm Art Fair 2020, Noir, Noir: Meditations on African Cinema And Its Influence on Visual Art, 1 – 21 December, 2020

2020 Future Fair, The Holiday Market: Art, Objects & Editions, 27 November – 18 December, 2020

Awards and Residencies

2022 Laurie Wagman Visiting Artist & AIR at Tyler School of Art, PA, USA

2021 NXTHVN Fellowship, New Haven, CT, USA 

2021 Urbanglass Scholarship Award, Decorative Decals

2020 Triangle Residency, Brooklyn NY, USA

2020 Urbanglass Scholarship Award, Kiln casting

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

2018 International Sculpture Center Sculpture Residency, Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton Township, NJ, USA

2018 Program Honors, Department of Fine Arts, Parsons The New School of Design, New York, NY, USA

2017 Beyoncé Formation Finalist Scholarship, New York, NY, USA

Teaching & Lectures

2022 Laurie Wagman Visiting Artist & AIR at Tyler School of Art, PA, USA

2022 O1 Artist Visa lecture, Center for Art Law, NY, USA

2021 Artist Mentor for the Soul of Nations Foundation’s “Indigenous International: Green Architecture Project” (partly sponsored by the U.S. Consulate General in Lagos, Nigeria and the U.S. Department of State)

2021 Visiting Artist Talk, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

2021 Visiting Artist Talk, Parsons School of Design, NY, USA

2018 Professor, Department of Integrated Design, Parsons The New School of Design, New York, NY, USA (Integrated Design Studio 01, Fall 2018)