Ebunoluwa Akinbo

Ebunoluwa Akinbo is a Nigerian visual artist currently residing in Canada. She merges her background in Sociology with her Fine Arts education to explore themes of memory, identity, and migration. Akinbo uses her camera as the primary tool to convey these themes in both figurative and abstract forms. Her work often includes performance (self-portraiture) and documentary styles, unraveling the literal and non-literal aspects of photography to captivate her audience.

Akinbo has undertaken both commissioned and personal projects, exhibiting her work locally and internationally. Her art has been recognized with awards and grants and has been collected by various institutions and private collectors. One of her recent works, "Bedsheet Memories," was developed during the 2024 Plug In Summer Institute residency in Winnipeg. She also showcased "Archive of Semblance for Remembrance" at the 2024 Nuit Blanche Toronto. In 2023, Akinbo received the Narwhal BIPOC Fellowship Grant in Canada, through which she created the body of work titled "Winnipeg’s Secondhand Fashion," published in 2024 in The Narwhal and the Winnipeg Free Press.