Ebunoluwa Akinbo
"Ebunoluwa Akinbo is a Nigerian visual artist residing in Canada. She combines her background in Sociology with her education in Fine Arts in exploring the themes of memory, identity, and migration in her evolving practice. She uses the camera as her primary tool in communicating these themes in a figurative and abstract form to captivate her audience, by constantly unraveling the literality and non-literality of photography in her work through performance (self-portraiture) and documentary.
Akinbo has worked on both commissioned and personal projects, exhibited locally and internationally, and received awards and grants. Her work has been collected by 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 presented her work, “Archive of Semblance for Remembrance”, at the 2024 Nuit Blanche Toronto. Akinbo is the 2023 recipient of the Narwhal BIPOC Fellowship Grant in Canada, through which she developed a body of work titled “Winnipeg’s Secondhand Fashion”, published in 2024 in The Narwhal and the Winnipeg Free Press."
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