{"id":23055,"date":"2025-09-29T18:23:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T22:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/?p=23055"},"modified":"2025-09-29T19:14:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:14:20","slug":"anthony-olubunmi-akinbola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/anthony-olubunmi-akinbola\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SCAD Savannah \u2013 Summer 2024 \u2013 Exhibitions \u2013 Anthony Akinbola \u2013 \u201dGood Hair\u201d \u2013 Artist Portrait \u2013 SCAD Museum of Art, Gallery 109 \u2013 Photography Courtesy of SCAD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Born in Columbia,Missouri, Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola<\/a>, is a first-generation American raised by Nigerian parents in the United States and Nigeria. His layered, richly colored compositions celebrate and signify the distinct cultures that shape his identity. The artist\u2019s signature Camouflage paintings, consisting of single and multi-panel works, utilize the ubiquitous du-rag as their primary material. Universally available and possessed of significant cultural context, the du-rag represents for Akinbola a readymade object that engages the conceptual strategies of Marcel Duchamp and other significant artistic predecessors. Throughout his work Akinbola unpacks the rituals and histories connecting Africa and America, addressing the power of fetishization around cultural objects.<\/p>\n

His previous interview on Yale University radio can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola recently was recently selected for the Pullman Yards Artist Residency, which will begin in early 2026. He also recently completed his residency at Black Rock Senegal in Dakar. In 2024, he was named Artist-in-Residence at Dragon Hill in France and in 2022, Akinbola was selected to be in The Artsy Vanguard, an annual feature spotlighting the most promising artists working today. That same year, Akinbola was also awarded the Silver Arts Project residency in New York. In 2019, he was awarded the Van Lier Fellowship and named the eighth Museum of Arts and Design Artist Fellow, which resulted in a solo exhibition at the museum. Akinbola was also selected for the Anderson Ranch Art Center Residency in 2017.<\/p>\n

Akinbola\u00a0has exhibited his work in group and individual shows at renowned institutions such as\u00a0the\u00a0SCAD Museum of Art,\u00a0Savannah, GA;\u00a0the\u00a0Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, San Francisco,\u00a0CA;\u00a0Schirn\u00a0Kunsthalle,\u00a0Frankfurt, Germany;\u00a0The Queens Museum, New York; the\u00a0Randall Recreation Center, Washington D.C.;\u00a0the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Pittsburgh, PA; the\u00a0John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI;\u00a0the\u00a0Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO;\u00a0Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria; the\u00a0Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT;\u00a0and\u00a0the Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY, among others.<\/p>\n

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Anthony Akinbola Brick \u201cSandstone\u201d, 2025, durags on wood panel 48 x 48 x 3 1\/4 inches.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Anthony Akinbola Celestial \u201cSpace Jam\u201d, 2025, durags on wood panel 36 x 36 x 3 1\/4 inches.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Anthony Akinbola Icarus, 2025, durags on wood panel panel: 72 x 72 x 3 1\/4 inches.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCAD Savannah \u2013 Summer 2024 \u2013 Exhibitions \u2013 Anthony Akinbola \u2013 \u201dGood Hair\u201d \u2013 Artist Portrait \u2013 SCAD Museum of Art, Gallery 109 \u2013 Photography Courtesy of SCAD Born in Columbia,Missouri, Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola, is a first-generation American raised by Nigerian parents in the United States and Nigeria. His layered, richly colored compositions celebrate and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","spay_email":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/wybcxlogoforweb-big-1sq-e1491800568261.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23089,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23055\/revisions\/23089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}