Adébayo Bolaji Contemporary Artist Painting Sculptures
After the success of the residency in Jaipur at
Sattva Theatre & Art, the works realised from this residency have successfully found an exhibition at one of India’s finest galleries -Nature Morte. Bolaji’s solo show “What The Flame Could Never Burn” in his own words :
"During a month-long residency in Jaipur at Sattva Theatre & Art, I was surrounded by rhythm, by heat, by history made visible in stone, pattern, and sky. But what stirred and lingered with me most was not just the beauty I saw — it was the beauty that had survived ”
The exhibition runs from June 12 to August 12, 2025.
Bolaji, features two paintings at Kó Art Space I. Lagos Nigeria from
April 24, 6-8 PM in the group show “Mining Abstractions”.
This group exhibition brings together artists who engage abstraction to decipher cultural codes, histories, and mythologies. Their works deconstruct systems of visual language through mark-making, pattern, repetition, and fluid structures. Working across painting, drawing, ceramics, textiles, and design, these artists approach abstraction as a practice of excavation, uncovering layered meanings and reshaping personal metaphors.
Bolaji has been invited by Sattva Theatre & Art as the first painter to hold an artist residency at the multidisciplinary art space. Bolaji will explore
Jaipur-India through a residency titled “Origin” where the artists asks the question : “can our differences be wisdom for our brilliance?”.
Norval Sovereign African Art Prize: Bolaji was selected as a finalist for the Norval Sovereign African Art Prize 2025, the largest art prize in the continent.
The exhibition of the finalists will run at the Norval Foundation Contemporary Art Museum in South Africa from Feb 4- April 20, 2025
This October- 2024, Bolaji will be advancing his practice at the first ever artist residency at
Bolaji will spend time in the Provence, to see how this area will influence his work. Presentations of the new works will be held at the Chateau’s gallery on the 19th of October 6-9pm.
Voted Museum of the Year, and having shown artists like Paula Rego, Jannis Kounellis, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Peter Doig, Richard Long, Chantal Joffe, Sonia Boyce and Frank Bowling. Arnolfini Arts in Bristol will be receiving Bolaji's solo show "IN PRAISE OF BEAUTY", that originated at the New Art Exchange. The show opens opens 28th June to September 2024.
NEW ART EXCHANGE
In his second institutional solo show, Bolaji presents
a series of new works for his exhibition titled
"IN PRAISE OF BEAUTY" at the New Art Exchange in Nottingham, England.
in his own words:
Ideals of beauty have existed in every culture and era, attaining, and sustaining these qualities sometimes becomes a cult-like status, but what are the driving forces that lead us to believe in a myth of universal beauty, despite its evolving nature?"
The exhibition will run from the 17th Feb to 4th May 2024.
