Sophia-Yemisi Adeyemo (b. Burlingame, California)
Education
2025 MFA (candidate), Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University
2021 BFA with honors, Rhode Island School of Design
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Real Art Ways “Common Property: Sun Washed Waste of the West,” Hartford, CT
2022-2023 BRIC House “Earth & Iron: Archival Visions of Land and Struggle,” Brooklyn, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 AM:PM Gallery, “The Space She Holds,” Brooklyn, NY
2025 Mason Gross Galleries “All That’s Hidden,” New Brunswick, NJ
2024 Picture Theory Gallery, “Mad Black Phantasms,” New York, NY
2023 Rutgers “Sublime Periphery,” New Brunswick, NJ
2023 C1760 Gallery “FEMME F(R)ICTION Celebrating Female Artists of the Last 100 Years,” New York, NY
“Rising Voices 2.0: The Bennett Prize for Women Figurative Realist Painters,” traveling exhibition:
2023 Studio Incamminati, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2022 Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2022 The Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus State University, Columbus,Georgia
2022 Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, New York
2022 Customs House: Museum & Cultural Center, Clarksville, Tennessee
2021 Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, Michigan
2022 Marianne Boesky Gallery “Winner Takes All,” New York, NY
2020 The Manetti Shrem Museum of Art “Rest is Power” Davis, California
2019 Office and Gallery “The Second Head” curated by Armina Mussa. Los Angeles, California
XL Catlin Art Prize, traveling exhibition:
2018 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2018 Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL
2018 New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Residencies
2021-2022 BRIC Arts Media Contemporary Artist Residency, Brooklyn, NY
2018 New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2018 Lazuli Residency, Corinth, VT
Publications
2023 Art Cube, “2023 Discoveries Report: Top 100 Early-Career Artists”
2022 Hyperallergic, “Fall 2022 New York Art Guide”
2022 Ghetto Gastro, “Black Power Kitchen”
Selected Awards
2024 MyMA Artist Grant
2023 Real Art Ways Award
2021 The Bennett Prize for Women Figurative Realist Painters, Finalist
Interviews
Academic Appointments
2025 Spring “Drawing in Color,” Mason Gross School of The Arts, Rutgers University
2025 Spring BFA Thesis Assistant, Mason Gross School of The Arts, Rutgers University
2024 Fall “Drawing in Color,” Mason Gross School of The Arts, Rutgers University
2024 Fall BFA Thesis Assistant, Mason Gross School of The Arts, Rutgers University
2024 Summer “Drawing and Painting” Rutgers Community Arts Pre-College
2024 Teaching Artist, Zimmerli Museum
2024 Spring “Drawing in Color,” Mason Gross School of The Arts, Rutgers University
2024 Spring BFA Thesis Assistant, Mason Gross School of The Arts, Rutgers University
2023 Fall BFA Thesis Assistant, Mason Gross School of The Arts, Rutgers University
2022 Teaching Artist, The Bronx Museum of the Arts