OLUSEYE (Nigerian- Canadian, b. 1986, London, UK)
Oluseye Ogunlesi unearths the hidden geographies of Black life, transforming diasporic debris into portals of memory, migration, and ritual. His sculptures and installations collapse temporal boundaries, where ancestral legacies and spiritual cosmologies meet contemporary experience.
He has exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario (2025), the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (2025), the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Fransisco (2024), Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto (2024), Southern Guild Gallery, Cape Town (2023), the Gardiner Museum, Toronto (2023), the Buffalo AKG Art Museum (2022), and the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (2021). In 2022, his first public art commission, Black Ark, was installed in Toronto’s Ashbridge’s Bay Park, and in summer 2026, he will inaugurate Toronto’s Lassonde Art Trail with Crown Act, a new immersive public sculpture.
Photo: Josh Rille