Modupeola Fadugba
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Modupeola Fadugba studied engineering, economics, and education.[3] She has received an MA in Economics from the University of Delaware, and holds an MEd from Harvard University.[4] Her parents were Nigerian Diplomats, and the artist spent most of her youth in England and the United States.[5] She is a self-taught artist.[6] Her series Dreams from the Deep End, which she developed during a residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York, was included in a solo exhibit at Gallery 1957.[7]
Career
Her solo shows include Heads Up, Keep Swimming at Temple Muse in Lagos in 2017,[8] Synchronised Swimming & Drowning at Ed Cross Fine Art in London in 2017,[9] Prayers, Players & Swimmers at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris in 2017,[10] and Dreams from the Deep End in New York in 2018,[7] which was reviewed in ArtForum International[7]
She has participated in numerous group shows, including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London in 2017,[11] Afriques Capitales in Lille, France in 2017,[12] and the Art Energy in London in 2015.[13]
Her work was selected in the 2016 Dakar Biennale, where she was awarded a Grand Prize from the Senegal Minister of Communication.[14] Her project The People’s Algorithm received the 2014 El Anatsu’s Outstanding Production Prize.[15]
Modupeola Fadugba's painting Teach Us How To Shoki In Pink appeared on the front cover of Arabia's Harper's Bazaar in April 2018.[16][17]
Her work is included in the collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art,[1] the University of Delaware,[14][18] the Sindika Dokolo Foundation and the Liberian President, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf [19][20]
Fadugba held a Smithsonian Institution Research Fellowship in 2020. The same year she held residency at Headlands Center for the Arts.[21]
