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 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
Residencies
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
2018 International Sculpture Center Sculpture Residency, Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton Township, NJ, USA
Awards/Scholarships
2021 UrbanGlass Scholarship Award, Decorative Decals
2020 UrbanGlass Scholarship Award, Kiln casting
2018 International Sculpture Center’s 2018 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award
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
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