EDUCATION
2024 - 2025 BPA// Berlin program for artists, Berlin, Germany
2018 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2018 BFA with distinction New York University, New York, USA
Studio Art (Honours Studio), Social and Cultural Analysis
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju: BloodLetter, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany
2024 BloodLetter, PSM, Berlin, Germany
2023 Saint V., Tarte Vienna, Vienna, Austria
2023 Gymnasia, A plus A Gallery, Venice, Italy
2020 Hands Full of Air, Galerie im Turm, Berlin, Germany
2020 Eve of Intuition, The Institute for Endotic Research (TIER), Berlin, Germany
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Genius Loci: Notes on Places, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Ludwigshafen, Germany
2025 Musafiri: Travellers and Guests, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
2024 Politics of Love, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
2024 SOCIETY: OR INFINITE REHEARSALS, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
2024 Twilight is a Place of Promise, Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany
2024 INVERSION-CONVERSION, BPA// Raum, Berlin, Germany
2024 Double Take, A Plus A Gallery, Venice, Italy
2023 OPEN, MaHalla, Berlin, Germany
2022 non playable character, The Farest X The School for Curatorial Studies, Venice, Italy
2021 Let experiments become attitude, The Fairest x Direkte Auktion, Berlin, Germany
2021 my whole body transformed into something else, Stevenson Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2020 WEITERTRAGEN, HVW8 Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2020 where will i be buried?, Flux Factory, New York, USA
2019 ENTF, Bark K Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2019 Queer Intimacy and States of Emotion, Human Resources, Los Angeles, USA
2019 Migrant Mothers, Cunsthaus-Tempus Projects, Tampa, FL
2018 From the Cradle to the Boat, C24 Gallery, New York City, USA
2018 Dia: B acon, Commons Gallery, New York, USA
2018 Do you begin where I end?, Two Person Exhibition, 80WSE Gallery, New York City, USA
2017 tuck me in, Commons Gallery, New York, USA
2017 Panning to Public, 80WSE Gallery, New York, USA
2017 Juxtapositions, Commons Gallery, New York, USA
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2024 “Loc Journey” in Grow It Show It: A Look at Hair from Diane Arbus to TikTok, Miriam Bettin, Clara Bolin, Sonja Palade, and Thomas
Seelig (Eds.), Distanz Verlag, Berlin, Germany
2023 “Eat Your Calf” in Sibyl’s Mouth: A Pure Fiction Publication, Rosa Aiello, Ellen Yeon kim, Erika Landström, Luzie Meyer, Mark Von Schlegell (Eds.), Sternberg Press, Berlin, Germany
2022 “A Day in Ha(a)rlem”
in The Art of Critique, edited by Melanie Bühler, Lenz Press & Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands
2022 Earnestly, Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju, Archive Books, Milan, Italy
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2024 Poetics of Encryption Reading Performance: “Secret Words and Related Stories with Jonna Kina, Shade Théret and Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju”, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
2022 “Milli’s Ghost” in collaboration with Natasha A. Kelly at I AM MILLI, Hase29, Osnabrück,Germany
2020 “Wayward Dust” at the Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin x Decolonize Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2020 “PACER” at SPACED OUT x PSM Gallery, Brandenburg, Germany
2019 “PACER” at Why Do You Fly From Me? Listenings in the Echo Chamber, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin Germany
2019 “My Mourning Routine 2019” at Innocence, PS120 Berlin, Germany
2019 “Eat Your Calf” at Affect/Effect: Performance Prosthesis, transmediale & CTM 2019 x SomoS, Berlin, Germany
PANELS, READINGS, WORKSHOPS, AND LECTURES
2025 Reading, Letters. A Reading, in Progress, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
2024 Guest Tutor, Art & Ideas: Art World Today – Berlin & Beyond, New York University Berlin, Berlin Germany
2023 Reading, Earnestly, HopscotchReading Room, Berlin, Germany
2023 Panel, Art of the Global South in German Exhibition Spaces: Development, conditions, hope, Berlin Global Village, Berlin, Germany
2023 Panel, Ugly as Sin: Beauty, Morality, and the Politics of Prettiness, Creamcake, Berlin, Germany
2023 Conversation, JOURNEY INTO THE UNKNOWN WITH JULIANA HUXTABLE, Fotografiska Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2023 Panel, The Restorative Power of Documentation, A Wa Nibi, Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany
2023 Guest Tutor, Art & Ideas: Art World Today – Berlin & Beyond, New York University Berlin, Berlin Germany
2022 Reading, Earnestly, Cashmere Radio, Berlin, Germany
2022 Workshop, Resonant Limbs: Radiophonic Writing Workshop, Cashmere Radio, Berlin, Germany
2023 Panel, The Art of Critique Book Launch, CCA Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2022 Artistic Talk, A Day in Ha(a)rlem, The Art of Critique Series, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NE
2022 Panel, The Impact of Social Practice, The British Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2022 Book Presentation, Earnestly, Galerie Wedding, Berlin, Germany
2022 Tour, Special Tour with Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju of the exhibition “Zanele Muholi”, Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
2021 Workshop, Reading the Body: A Performative Writing Workshop, Somatic Charting, The Institute for Endotic Research (TIER), Berlin, Germany
2021 Workshop, Transatlantic Synergies: Building a Diverse and Inclusive Culture of Remembrance (DAICOR), Cultural Vistas x Dekoloniale, Berlin, Germany
2020 Workshop, COOP study group: Performing the Living ))((Living the Performing w/ Akinbode Akinbiyi & Arlette-Louise Ndakoze, Dutch Art Institute x Sonsbeek 2020, Arnhem, Netherlands
2019 Lecture, Untold (Hi)stories, M. Embassy x HFBK University of Fine Arts Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
2019 Artist Talk & Class Visit, New York University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2019 Collectivity, Collaboration, Cooperation, Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Karlsruhe, Germany
2019 Reading: The more I study my Body, the less I care for nature, Assembly Room, NYC
2019 Panel, Politics of Love #5: Accountability / Verantwortung, Sophiensaele, Berlin, Germany
RESIDENCIES
2022 Cashmere Radio, Cashmere Radio Basisförderung Residency, Berlin, Germany
2019 Performance Intensive, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania
2017 Currents Residency, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
HONOURS & AWARDS
2025 Zonta Kunstpreis Prize
2021 BBK Berlin Studio Grant
2018 Skowhegan Fellowship Full Grant
2018 New York University Artistic Practice Award
2017 New York University Artistic Practice Award
2017 New York University Senior Honors Studio, Exhibition and Thesis
2017 Dina Wind Grant for Artists Working in Video, Sculpture or Assemblage
2014 Bill Gates Millennium Scholarship
2014 Harry Redlich Essay Scholarship, 1st Place
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
2022 Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands
CURATORIAL
2024 “Siren Songs” in Is it cold in the water?, Creamcake, Berlin, Germany
2022 The Impact of Social Practice, Venice Art Biennale, British Council x Therme Art, Venice Italy
2021 From Non-Extractive to Regenerative Architectures: Growing a Symbiotic City, Venice Architecture Biennale, VAC Foundation x Therme Art, Venice, Italy
2019 I am not on the Blacklist with Hyoung-Min Kim and Gabriel Galindez Cruz, SAVVY Contemporary x Tanzfabrik Open Studios, Berlin, Germany