Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola (b. Columbia, Missouri) is a New York-based artist and first-generation American raised between Missouri and Nigeria. His multifaceted compositions celebrate and reconcile diverse cultural narratives, creating multilayered works of art that engage consumption, respectability, and the commodification of Black culture. Akinbola was selected for the Anderson Ranch Art Center Residency in 2017, was awarded the Van Lier Fellowship in 2019, and was an artist in residence at Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna in 2020. He has had solo exhibitions at Night Gallery, False Flag, The John Michael Kohler Art Center, The Queens Museum, and featured in exhibitions at The Zuckerman Museum of Art, and The Verbeke Foundation, Belgium, among others.

SELECT Exhibitions

• By Way Of: Material and Motion in the Guggenheim Collection, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, 2024

• Natural Beauty, Sean Kelly, New York, NY, 2022

• Magic City, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, 2021

• Fire by Force, FALSE FLAG, New York, NY, 2021

• Idealistic, Curated by Mike Moseby, University Art Museum, Albany, NY, 2021

• Local Import, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY, 2020

• UNBOUND, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, 2020

• Styles of Resistance, MoCADA Museum, New York, NY, 2019

• Kadosh, Denny Dimin Gallery, New York, NY, 2019

• CAMOUFLAGE, Queens Museum, New York, NY, 2018