Born in 1992 to Nigerian parents in London, Tunji Adeniyi-Jones received a BFA from The Ruskin School of Art at Oxford University in 2014 and an MFA in painting and printmaking from the Yale School of Art in 2017. Using painting as a means to pay homage to his Yoruban ancestry and its attendant folklore, Tunji Adeniyi-Jones employs a vivid palette and an expressive treatment of the body within a flattened picture plane to present a distinctly West African take on modernism.
