2012
BFA, School of Visual Arts, New York
Born 1990, Cookeville, United States
Lives and works in New York
BFA, School of Visual Arts, New York
An angel is just a messenger, Maureen Paley, London
Me & U, Sweetwater, Berlin
Me estás poniendo nervioso, Galeria OMR, Mexico City
Eden, 52 Walker, New York
Half-Life, von ammon co., Washington, D.C.
Could You Bare Your Torso?, Università Iuav di Venezia, Venice
Call it what you want, Sweetwater, Berlin
The Aviator, Martos Gallery, New York
Never Been Kissed, Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles
You dressed him like me?, Via Durini 24, Milan
Equilibrium, Martos Gallery, New York
Closer, Sweetwater, Berlin
Betrayal, Balice Hertling, Paris
Running on Empty, And Now, Dallas
maybe no one will notice, Guertin’s Graphics, Brooklyn
you gotta keep your head up but you can let your hair down, 55 Gansevoort, New York
Incandescence, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York
MANIFESTO organised by KALEIDOSCOPE, Espace Niemeyer, Paris
The Secret History, Gladstone Gallery, New York
New York, N. Why?, Gems, New York
Boffo Fall Benefit Exhibition hosted by Kurimanzutto, New York
Oak House, Fernberger, Los Angeles (in Newport, Rhode Island)
Eugenics in the Garden, Tureen, Dallas
Found in Translation, 56 Henry x Art Intelligence Global, Hong Kong
Lost/Found, cur. Archiebald Ruphulu, Galleria Poggiali, Milan
DEVILS ON HORSEBACK, 032c, Berlin
MZ.25 (My Condolences), M+B, Los Angeles
Perspektiven. Futurismen, Mercedes-Benz Contemporary, Berlin
Exposition N°120 (maybe), Balice Hertling, Paris
that other world, the world of the teapot. tenderness, a model, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover
F*CK ART: the body & its absence, Museum of Sex, New York
Focus Group 3, von ammon co., Washington, D.C.
The Last Day of Disco, Fragment Gallery, New York
Before I met you the world seemed like such a big place… now there is only this shop, Sweetwater, Berlin
Rested, Nicola Vassell, New York
Fetiche, Morán Morán, Mexico City
Friends & Family, Magenta Plains, New York
Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New York
Athens Biennale, Athens
Alien Nation, von ammon co., Washington, D.C.
Under a Loggia, cur. Winter Street Gallery, Galería Hilario Galguera, Mexico City
Lost and Found, cur. Bob Nickas, Martos Gallery, New York
Lucky for Men, cur. David Rimanelli, Bortolami Gallery, New York
Grace before Jones, cur. Cédric Fauq, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
Get Rid of Yourself, cur. Jeppe Ugelvig, Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna
Eigenheim, Soft Opening, London
Gennariello (Part II), Balice Hertling, Paris
Love Sign, Galerie Noah Klink, Berlin
Focus Group II, Von Ammon Co., Washington, D.C.
All Them Witches, cur. Laurie Simmons, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles
Dicke Luft, cur. Tenzing Barshee, Galerie Bernhard, Zurich
The person who is recording cannot intervene, cur. Ruth Pilston, Arcadia Missa, London
Horology, cur. Elizabeth Jaeger and Silke Lindner-Sutti, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York
Life and Limbs, cur. Anna-Sophie Berger, Swiss Institute, New York
AWE, Merchant Marine Academy, Hydra
Rubus Armeniacus (Himalayan blackberry), Jessica’s Apartment, New York
Artists Use Photography, Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles
Cruising Pavilion, Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies Ludlow 38, New York
A Strong Desire, PS120, Berlin
Blood Clots, Salon 94 Freemans, New York
Ormai, Balice Hertling, Paris
Inflatable Tear, cur. Ellie Rines, Ceysson & Bénétière, New York
Invisible Man, cur. Ebony Haynes, Martos Gallery, New York
my fossil, my echo I my excess, my scrap, cur. Gabrielle Jensen and Julia Lee, MX Gallery, New York
Mortal Sequence, cur. Heather Guertin, Brennan and Griffin, New York
Baboon Undaunted, cur. Jake Begin, Museum Gallery, New York Memory Room, Outpost Artist Resources, New York
Natural Flavor, cur. Vivien Trommer, MINI/Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies Ludlow 38, New York
Inventors at the Apocalypse, Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, Germany
AGGRO-CULTURE x Farm Tour CSA, Holiday Cafe, New York
Artforum, Kayode Ojo, Maureen Paley, Oskar Oprey, 1 September 2025
ArtReview, The 8 Exhibitions to See in London This June, 6 June 2025
Wallpaper, Ten things to see at London Gallery Weekend, Emi Eleode, 3 June 2025
The Art Newspaper, London Gallery Weekend 2025: our critics pick their top shows, Ben Luke and Louisa Buck, 3 June 2025
Mousse Magazine, Kayode Ojo “An angel is just a messenger” at Maureen Paley, London, 26 May 2025
Westall, Mark, “Art Basel Hong Kong 2025: 242 World-Class Galleries From 42 Countries.”, FAD Magazine, October 31
Lu, Louis, “Art Basel Hong Kong Is Primed for 2025”, ArtAsiaPacific, October 31
Moses, Serubiri, “Reason, Cliché, Object: A Few Notes on African Art Exhibitions”, e-flux, Issue #148, October
Frost, Robert, “Kayode Ojo”, émergent magazine, Issue 12
Mateos, Pierre-Alexandre and Teyssou, Charles, “Kayode Ojo”. Kaleidoscope, OnlineThe Female Gaze, The Conduit, London, UK
Heinrich, Will, “Eden at 52 Walker”, The New York Times, December 31
Herriman, Kat “Kayode Ojo Wants You to Question Your Relationship to Fashion” W Magazine, November 30. Yablonsky, Linda “At 52 Walker, Kayode Ojo raids Amazon.com to create a Modernist Eden”, theartnewspaper.com, November 29
Dafoe, Taylor “Kayode Ojo’s Glittery Readymades May Be About Capitalism or Fetishism— But He Won’t Tell You Which” news.artnet.com, November 22.
Brady, Keegan “Kayode Ojo’s Spiritual Readymades” PIN-UP Magazine, October 2023.
Jenkins, Mark “In the galleries: Using technology as a medium and an inspiration”, The Washington Post, February 10.
Henderson, Terri “Critic’s Pick”, Artforum, February 1.
Muñoz, María “Kayode Ojo - Glitter, fast fashion, and faux glamour”, METAL Magazine, #47.
Wu, Simon, “Kayode Ojo’s Embarrassment of Riches”, Frieze, #227, April 28.
Oetting, Blake, “Desire Machines: The Art of Kayode Ojo”, Flash Art, #338, Spring 2022
Burns, Sean, Stead, Chloe, Trouillot, Terrence, “Frieze Editors on the Artists and Trends of 2021”, Frieze, December 17.
Rimanelli, David, “Openings: Kayode Ojo” Artforum, #60, November.
Stead, Chloe, “Kayode Ojo’s Synthetic Opulence Taps into Our Consumer Desires”, Frieze, June 3. Balcony Magazine, Issue 01.
Als, Hilton, “Goings on About Town”, The New Yorker, February 1.
Bennett, Alex, “Shady Optics: Kayode Ojo”, Mousse Magazine, January 26.
Gruppe Magazin, Issue 02. Self Service Magazine, Issue 53, Winter 2020.
Brock, Peter, “Naughty Glam”, Texte zur Kunst, October 30. “Kayode Ojo at Martos Gallery” (online video). Artforum, October 16.
Heinrich, William, “Critic’s Notebook”, New York Times, October 15. Luncheon Magazine, Issue 10
Scheder, Beate, “Durch den violetten Vorhang”, taz, June 9.
Arrigoni, Marco, “Gli artisti contemporanei under 30 spiegano il linguaggio delle nuove generazioni”, Harper’s Bazaar Italia, February 20.
de Cárdenas, Rafael, “Class Act: Kayode Ojo”, PIN-UP, Issue 27.Demircan, Saim, “Kayode Ojo”, Flash Art, March 5. Murakami, Kenta, “Kayode Ojo”, Art in America, January 1.
Heinrich, Will, “What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week: Kayode Ojo”, New York Times, December 13. Karp-Evans, Elizabeth, “Kayode Ojo Revels in the Ready-Made”, Cultured Magazine, November 29. “Forbes 30 Under 30: Art & Style”, Forbes.com, November 14.
Nedo, Kito, “Kito Nedo schaut sich in Berlins Galerien um”, taz, November 8.
Mallett, Whitney, “Kayode Ojo’s Show Has a Male Chastity System and Balenciaga Jeans”, Vulture, November 2. Gavin, Francesca, “Kayode Ojo”, Cura Magazine, Issue 29.
“Practice in Print: Kayode Ojo”, Studio Magazine (Studio Museum, Harlem), Spring/Summer 2018
Can Yerebakan, Osman, “In This Artist’s Intimate, Surreal Photos, Southern Gothic Meets Max Fish”, Garage, March 26.
Press, Clayton, “Culture Under Surveillance, Photographs By Zoe Leonard and Kayode Ojo”, Forbes.com, March 19.
Pedro, Lila, “When Conceptual Art Makes You Acutely Aware of Your Body”, Hyperallergic, June 9. “Become What You Fear”, Texte zur Kunst, June. Heinrich, Will, “What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week: Invisible Man”, New York Times, May 25. ““The space begs. The space weeps”: A black buck enters a freshly painted room in Kayode Ojo + Winslow Laroche’s ‘Taye Diggs’”, aqnb.com, April 10.
CCS Hessel Museum of Art, New York
MOCA Museum of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles
Museum Brandhorst, Munich
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York