Born in 1991, Columbia, MO. Lives and works in New York, NY.
SELECTED SOLO and TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024
Western Beef, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
Good Hair, Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
Color Fields, with Huh Myoungwook, curated by Night Gallery at Various Small Fires, Seoul, Korea
Monty Hall, Mobile Art Gallery at Randall Recreation Center, Washington, D.C.
2023
Sweet Tooth, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022
Natural Beauty, Sean Kelly, New York, NY
Multilateral, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
2021
Schottenfeld Atelier, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
Thanks A Million, Carbon 12, Dubai
Market, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Magic City, John Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
by Fire by Force, FALSE FLAG, New York, NY
2020
Cousins, FALSE FLAG Gallery, Queens, NY
LOCAL IMPORT, Museum of Art and Design, Manhattan, NY
2018
CAMOUFLAGE, Queens Museum, Queens, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
The Abstract Future, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, CA
2024
The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
The Poetics of Dimensions, Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Midsommar, Bode, Berlin, Germany
Xippi, Heritage, and Metamorphosis: Voices in West African Art, The August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Pittsburgh, PA
By Way Of: Material and Motion in the Guggenheim Collection, curated by Naomi Beckwith, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
2023
Group presentation with Carbon 12, Art Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
The Poetics of Dimensions, curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah, UBS Art Studio at Art Basel Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami, FL
Tracing Lineage: Abstraction and its Aftermath, curated by Margarita Karasoulas, Bruce
Museum, Greenwich, CT
Amy Sherald's Portrait of Breonna Taylor: In the Garden, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Not for Sale, NXTHVN, New Haven, CT
2022
Faking the Real, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
BLACK, The KNOW Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
THIS IS NOT WHAT IT SEEMS, Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery, NY
The New Bend, Curated by Legacy Russell, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA
2021
What It’s All About, Jenkins-Johnson Gallery, New York, NY
Convergent Evolutions, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
Idealistic, Curated by Mike Moseby, University Art Museum, Albany, NY
2020
Elements of …, Pt.2 Gallery, Oakland, CA
Unbound, Zuckerman Museum, Atlanta, GA
2019
19191919, New Image Gallery, New York, NY
2018
Same Difference, Miranda Kuo Gallery, New York, NY
2017
Crossworks, Dordyart, Dordrecht, Netherlands
2015
Frontline, City Bird Gallery, New York, NY
RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS
2024
Dragon Hill Residency, Mouans-Sartoux, France
Black Rock Residency, Dakar, Senegal
2022
Silver Art Projects, New York, NY
2021
Galerie Krinzinger Residency, Vienna, Austria
2020
Galarie Kringzinger Residency, Vienna, Austria
2019
Museum of Art and Design MAD Fellowship, New York, NY
2017
Anderson Ranch Art Center Residency, Snowmass, CO
Dordtyart Crossworks Residency, Dordrecht, Netherlands
Verbeke Foundation Residency, Kemzeke, Belgium
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
The Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection
The Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH
Zabludowicz Collection, London, United Kingdom
SELECTED PRESS
2024
Tom Denman, “Dragon Hill X ArtReview Writers Residency: Tom Denman,” Art Review, August 19
Swarna Gowtham, “ 8 Artists to Watch in 2024” L’OFFICIEL, May 7
Kareema Thomas, "Things Fall Apart," X-TRA, February 28
2023
Vittoria Benzine, "10 Art World Professionals on How to Land Your First Big Break,” Cultured, August 16
Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi, “Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola at Night Gallery,” Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, August 2023 (print)
Saranna Zhang, “Rising Artists Get Another Houston Showcase—A City Where Fresh Works Are Treasured,” PaperCity, July 18 Tony Parker, “Curator’s Choice: The Next Generation of Masters in Black Contemporary Art,” Artsy, July 10
Taylor Dafoe, “Black Rock Senegal, Kehinde Wiley’s Closely Watched Artist Residency, Has Welcomed a New Class of 16 Artists—Meet Them Here,” Artnet News, July 5
André-Naquian Wheeler, "This Nigerian-American Artist Uses Durags As His Medium," Vogue, April 25
Ann Binlot, "These are the 5 NYC Artists to Know Right Now," Highsnobiety, April 11
Olisa Tasie-Amadi Jr., "Anthony Akinbola: Beauty in Limitations," tmrw, March 30
Jesse Doris, "Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola Wields Simple Yet Loaded Materials," Surface, March 27
2022
Artsy Editorial, "The Artsy Vanguard 2022," Artsy, November 15
Artnet News Editors, “10 Must-See Gallery Shows in Los Angeles This Month, From Vintage Cindy Sherman Photographs to Sand-Inflected Abstractions,” Artnet News, October 4
Ayanna Dozier, “The 10 Best Booths at The Armory Show 2022,” Artsy, September 9
Anna Rahmanan, “11 interesting works to catch at Frieze Art Fair this weekend,” Timeout,
May 20
Artnet News Editors, “In Pictures: See How a New Cohort of Contemporary Textile
Artists Are Taking Quilting in Challenging New Directions, Artnet News, February 21
Folasade Ologundudu, “10 Emerging Black Artists Show That Blackness Is Not a Monolith,” Artsy, February 10
2021
Artsy Curatorial and Artsy Editorial, “5 Artists on Our Radar in June 2021,” Artsy, June 1
2020
Hey, It’s Bunmi!, Sebastian Jean, Office Magazine, August 25
Fibre Art, Anna Sansom, The Design Edit, April 2
Anthony Akinbola’s Durag Paintings Subvert Power Dynamics in Museum Spaces, Taylor Hosking, VICE, April 10