Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju

Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju (born 1996) is a Nigerian-American artist and writer living in Berlin. Her transdisciplinary practice (painting, performance, video, installation and writing) confronts the distortions of systemic structures, while offering avenues toward collective and embodied healing.  As she works through intimate subject matter, she also interrogates the broader, political contexts in which these issues and observations. Ilupeju graduated with distinction from New York University, where she studied studio art and social and cultural analysis. She is also an alumna of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She has done  curatorial and editorial work wih SAVVY Contemporary and Archive Books, among others.