Temitayo Ogunbiyi

Temitayo Ogunbiyi (born 1984) is a Nigerian-based contemporary artist and curator. She is known for her exhibitions in several museums, the most popular being the playground installed at Italy's Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina in 2020, known as You Can Play in the Everyday, Running.

Quotes

• “create interactive sculptures that collapse the divide between fine art and play spaces”
  • "TEMITAYO OGUNBIYI AND HER PLAYFUL VISIONS FOR NAPLES - THISDAYLIVE". www.thisdaylive.com. Retrieved 21 March 2025.

• “I found that as a foreigner, embarking on this project with little knowledge of the local culture, it was easier for me to find value in what is available locally, especially because much of what I encountered was new to me. At the same time, I enjoyed integrating my memories of Lagos – histories of threaded hairstyles and plants, with these Italian references. In the end, I learned quite a bit and hope that I was able to begin a dialogue between these two cities.”
• "TEMITAYO OGUNBIYI AND HER PLAYFUL VISIONS FOR NAPLES - THISDAYLIVE". www.thisdaylive.com. Retrieved 21 March 2025.
• “I feel accomplished having gotten my kids to do the better part of their school work!”
  • "TEMITAYO OGUNBIYI AND HER PLAYFUL VISIONS FOR NAPLES - THISDAYLIVE". www.thisdaylive.com. Retrieved 21 March 2025.
• “Teeming spaces and troubled vision make good fiction for thinking.”
  • Proctor, Rebecca Anne (8 November 2019). "The Second Lagos Biennial Takes Over a Former Government Building to Imagine What Would Happen If Artists Were in Charge of Our Future". Artnet News. Retrieve 21 March 2025.
• “Information is one of the greatest currencies in Lagos,” Dike says.
  • Proctor, Rebecca Anne (8 November 2019). "The Second Lagos Biennial Takes Over a Former Government Building to Imagine What Would Happen If Artists Were in Charge of Our Future". Artnet News. Retrieve 21 March 2025.
• “Information is hidden and buried; it is inaccessible to the people and only permitted to those in power.”
  • Proctor, Rebecca Anne (8 November 2019). "The Second Lagos Biennial Takes Over a Former Government Building to Imagine What Would Happen If Artists Were in Charge of Our Future". Artnet News. Retrieve 21 March 2025.
• “To fill a lagoon with a bottle of wine, without money etc… this is a miracle,”
  • Proctor, Rebecca Anne (8 November 2019). "The Second Lagos Biennial Takes Over a Former Government Building to Imagine What Would Happen If Artists Were in Charge of Our Future". Artnet News. Retrieve 21 March 2025.
• “The artist is the one who has to mend the fragments for them to make sense,”
  • Quiñones, Eric. "Challenging issues of identity in the art world". Princeton University. Retrieved 21 March 2025.

Quotes About her

• “A curious observer of the world around her, Ogunbiyi crafts forms that indirectly suggest the need for protective spaces that nurture.”
  • "TEMITAYO OGUNBIYI AND HER PLAYFUL VISIONS FOR NAPLES - THISDAYLIVE". www.thisdaylive.com. Retrieved 21 March 2025.
• “Systems that capture, mediate, and direct the movement of people and matter is a recurring subject of investigation in her practice,”
  • "TEMITAYO OGUNBIYI AND HER PLAYFUL VISIONS FOR NAPLES - THISDAYLIVE". www.thisdaylive.com. Retrieved 21 March 2025.
• “Her work considers both the overt and conscious as well as the unconscious or surreptitious categorizations that define and propel the fate of art in multiple contexts: institutions, the marketplace and the academy,”
  • Quiñones, Eric. "Challenging issues of identity in the art world". Princeton University. Retrieved 21 March 2025.
• “One of the things that I find most compelling about Tayo’s studio work is its engagement with circulation systems: the way in which products, ideas and images circulate in a global marketplace. … What Tayo says about circulation in her art — that it isn’t seamless or neat and that it can involve rupture, violence or misrecognition — speaks eloquently to the difficulty, even perversity, of defining or knowing identity (national as well as individual) in the 21st century.”
  • Quiñones, Eric. "Challenging issues of identity in the art world". Princeton University. Retrieved 21 March 2025.