Sophia-Yemisi Adeyemo

Sophia-Yemisi Adeyemo is an interdisciplinary artist of Nigerian descent who works at the intersection of painting and sculpture. Her art addresses the complexities of disenfranchisement, resistance and education, and its sculptural aspects are fashioned out of found materials, collected from dumpsters and the roadside. This practice engages with Afro-diasporic folk practices like memory jugs and burial sites, in which fragmented objects act as intermediaries between the living and the dead. Her work has been exhibited in New York City's Marianne Boesky Gallery and BRIC in Brooklyn, among other galleries.