Open Air: Artist Talk with Tunji Adeniyi-Jones

Open Air is a monthly series of intimate conversations with Black artists across the globe, hosted by the Gantt. December's installment features painter Tunji Adeniyi-Jones.

This program will be livestreamed on our YouTube channel.

Tunji Adeniyi-Jones (b.1992, London, United Kingdom) is an artist living and working in New York, NY. Adeniyi-Jones received a BFA from The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, in 2014, and an MFA from Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, in 2017. Recent solo exhibitions include Deep Dive, White Cube Hong Kong (2023); Spotlight, FLAGArt Foundation, New York(2023); Tranquil Dive, Morán Morán, CDMX, Mexico(2023); Emergent Properties, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, NewYork, NY (2022); Voix Intérieures, White Cube, Paris, France(2022) among others.

Dexter Wimberly is an American curator based in Japan who has organized exhibitions in galleries and institutions around the world including the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City, The Green Family Art Foundation in Dallas, KOKI Arts in Tokyo, Bode Projects in Berlin, and The Third Line in Dubai. His exhibitions have been reviewed and featured in publications including The New York Times and Artforum; and have received support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and The Kinkade Family Foundation. Wimberly is a Senior Critic at New York Academy of Art, and the founder and director of the Hayama Artist Residency in Japan. He is also the co-founder and CEO of the online education platform, CreativeStudy.