Olalekan Jeyifous

Olalekan Jeyifous (b. 1977) received a BArch from Cornell University and is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work critically reimagines the intersections of architecture, community, and the environment through speculative visual storytelling that explores alternative ways of relating to each other and the spaces we inhabit. His art has been exhibited at major institutions including the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Guggenheim Bilbao, and is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and SFMOMA.

In addition to an extensive exhibition history, he creates large-scale public installations and was co-commissioned to design a monument to Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm for New York City’s She Built NYC initiative. His distinctions include the 2024 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, the Silver Lion at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale, a 2021 United States Artists Fellowship, the 2021 Miller Prize, and two NYFA Fellowships.