| Activity | 20 April 1955 Born in Lagos, Nigeria.
1966 Moved to Brighton, England.
1980: BA in Fine Arts and Economics, Georgetown University, Washington.
1983: Settled in England.
1983: MFA in Photography, Pratt Institute, New York.
1988: Co-founded Autograph: Association of Black Photographers.
1988: Released Black Male/White Male.
SOLO EXHIBITION (SELECTED)
2021 Tranquility of Communion, Hales Gallery, London, UK
2021 Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955 – 1989), Georgetown University Art Galleries,
Washington, WA, USA
2018 Rage & Desire, Hales Project Room, New York, NY, USA
2016 Shores Like You, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2016 Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989), Palitz Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2015 Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989), Light Work, Syracusse, NY, USA
2015 Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989), Chobi Mela VIII Festival, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2014 Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989), Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK
2014 Rotimi Fani-Kayode: Traces of Ecstasy, Iziko South African National Gallery,
Cape Town, South Africa
2012 Rotimi Fani-Kayode: Nothing to Lose, Walther Collection Project Space, New
York, NY, USA
2011 Rotimi Fani Kayode (1955-1989), Rivington Place, London, UK
2009 Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1988): Photographs, Rudenstine Gallery, W.E.B. Du
2009 Bois Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
2007 Rotimi Fani-Kayode: Bodies of Experience, Michael Stevenson Contemporary
Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2007 Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Jean Marc Patras Galerie, Paris, France
ROTIMI FANI-KAYODE CV
2006 Rotimi Fani-Kayode: Black and White Photographs from the Estate, Michael
Stevenson Contemporary Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
1999 Communion - Selected Works, Café Gallery, London, UK
1995 Communion - Selected Works, Impressions Gallery, York, UK
1989 Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photographer (1955-1989): Retrospective, 198 Gallery,
London, UK Submarine Gallery, London, UK
1986 Yoruba Light for Modern Living, Riverside Studios, London, UK
1985 Rotimi Fani-Kayode, B&J Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2023 A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography, Tate Modern,
London, UK
2023 Trace, Formations of Likeness: Photography and Video from The Walther
Collection, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
2023 A Hard Man is Good to Find!, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK
2022 The Spirit of Revue Noire: A Founding Collection, Hakanto Contemporary,
Antananarivo, Madagascar
2022 Cosmogony, Cobra Museum of Modern Art Amstelveen, Amsterdam,
Netherlands
2022 African Cosmologies: Redux, The Alta Arts - FotoFest, Houston, TX, USA
2022 Living with Ghosts, Pace Gallery, London, UK
2022 Living with Ghosts, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia
University, New York, NY, USA
2022 A Century of the Artist’s Studio 1920 - 2020, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2021 Cut and Mix, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK
2021 Masculinities: Liberation through Photography, Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany;
FOMU Antwerp, Belgium
2021 Greater New York, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY, USA
2020 Masculinities: Liberation through Photography, Barbican Art Gallery, London,
UK
2020 GENDERS: Shaping and Breaking the Binary, Science Gallery, London, UK
2020 Feast for the Eyes – The Story of Food in Photography, The Photographers
Gallery, London, UK
2020 African Cosmologies – Photography, Time and the Other, Houston FotoFest
Biennial, TX, USA
2019 Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New
York, NY, USA
2018 Artist and Society: Intimacy, Activism and AIDS, Tate Modern, London, UK
2016 Shores Like You, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2013 Glyphs: Acts of Inscription, Pitzer Art Galleries, Claremont, CA, USA
2012 Foreign Exchange - or the stories you wouldn’t tell a stranger, Weltkulturen
Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2011 Events of the Self: Portraiture and Social Identity, Paris Photo - Walther
Collection Project Space, Paris, France
2011 ARS 11: Taking Africa, Kiasma-Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki,
Finland
2010 Disidentifikation, Göteborgs Konsthall, Göteborg, Sweden
2010 Events of the Self: Portraiture and Social Identity, Walther Collection Project
2010 Space, Neu- Ulm, Burlafingen, Germany
2009 Transatlantic Pride Art Show, Clifford Chance, New York Gay Pride, New York,
USA & London, UK
2008 Africa and the World, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2005 Über Schönheit, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
2004 Staged Realities: Exposing the Soul in African Photography 1970-2004, Michael
Stevenson Contemporary, Cape Town, South Africa
2003 Dreams & Conflicts - the Dictatorship of the Viewer, African Pavilion, 50th
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2000 Mardi Gras Arts Festival, E1 Gallery, London, UK
2000 Porträt Afrika / Portrait Africa: A Century of Photographic Standpoints, Verein
der Freunde, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
1999 Eye Africa: African Photography 1840-1998, South African National Gallery,
Cape Town, South Africa
1996 The Other Story, Kunsthalle Krems, Salzburg, Austria
1996 In/Sight: African Photographers 1940 to the Present, Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum, New York, NY, USA
1994 Significant Losses: Artists who have died from AIDS, The Art Gallery,
University of Maryland, College Park MD, USA
1992 Foto-Fest, Houston, TX, USA
1990 Ecstatic Antibodies, Battersea Arts Centre, London, UK
1989 Bodies of Experience: Stories about Living with HIV, Camerawork, London, UK
1989 Essential Contact, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, USA
1987 Misfits, Oval House Gallery, London, UK
1986 Same Difference, Camerawork, London, UK
1985 Sacred and Profane Love, South West Arts, London, UK No Comment, Brixton
Art Gallery, London, UK |