Solo Exhibitions
2022
‘Cut from The Same Cloth’, Ed Cross Gallery, London, United Kingdom
‘What Will You Do with Your Own Aje?’, Montague Contemporary, New York, United States of America
2020
‘We All Live Here’, The Gramophone Works, London, United Kingdom
2019
Payne Gallery, Moravian College, Pennsylvania, USA
2018-2019
‘Yoruba Remixed’, EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
‘Africa Supernova’, Museum Kade, Amersfoort, Netherlands
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, EBONY/CURATED, South Africa
2022
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, EBONY/CURATED, South Africa
2021
'Stop, Listen!’, CFHILL, Stockholm, Sweden
2020
1-54 London, Montague Contemporary, USA
Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2020, EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa
2019
AKAA (Also Known As Africa), Paris, France
'Diaspora’, New Ashgate Gallery, Surrey, United Kingdom
‘A Smaller Scale’, EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa
2017
‘Recits d”Afrique’, La Galerie Africaine, Paris, France
‘Colourchart’, EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa
‘Tempo, expo d’Art contemporain’, Cloitre des Billettes, Paris, France
2014
‘Opening Exhibition: Furious Flower Conference, Seeding the future of African ‘American Poetry’,
James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA
‘Wole Lagunju: African Diaspora Artist and Transnational Visuality’, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA
2011
‘Womanscape: Race, Gender and Sexuality in African Art’, University of Texas, Austin Texas, USA
2009
‘Egungun: Diaspora Recycling’, University of Texas, Austin Texas, USA
2008
‘Africa Now’, The World Bank Art Program, Washington DC, USA
‘Healing Beauty’, The Mizel Museum, Denver, Colorado, USA
‘Art for Africa’, Juried Exhibition, The Emerson Centre for the Arts and Culture, Bozeman, Montana, USA
2007
‘African Artists Celebrating Ethiopian Millennium’, The Belvedere, Baltimore USA Mbari Art, Washington DC, USA
2006
‘Let’s Art Nadine Guntert meets Africa’. Vernissage: Bilder von Mauva Lessor, Osahenye Kainebi,
Wole Lagunju, Ablade Glover, Stein-und Holzskulpturen, Luzern. Switzerland.
‘The Art of Oshogbo’, Via Mundi Gallery, Atlanta USA
2005
Pan African Film and Arts Festival, Los Angeles, USA
2004
'Without Borders- Four Contemporary Artists’, Pan African University, Ajah, Lagos
2002
Afrika Heritage, Lagos
‘Linkages’, Gallery 1,2,3,4, Trinidad and Tobago, USA
TotalfinaElf Art Exhibition, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
2000
‘Visions and Sensibilities’, Signature Art Gallery, Lagos
1997
‘Best of Ife’, Goethe Institut, Lagos
1995
Sammlung fur Neue Afrikanische Kunst, Afrika Haus Freiberg
Ona – Best of Ife- Signature Art Gallery, Lagos
1993
‘Best of Ife’, Signature Art Gallery, Lagos
‘Linkages’, Gallery 1,2,3,4, Trinidad and Tobago
Education
1986 BFA Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
2004 Philip L Ravenhill Fellowship, UCLA, Los Angeles, California
Grants and Awards
2023 Northern Trust Purchase Prize, Expo Chicago
2009 Pollock Krasner Foundation Award
Press
Forbes (2020) “1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair” | Artsy (2020) “An Art Advisor’s Guide to Collecting during London’s Fair Week“ | LeMonde (2020) “Important sale of contemporary African art in Paris” | Luxury Defined (2020) “5 Contemporary African Artists to Know About Now“
Artsy – Artists To Discover If You Like Barkley Hendricks
The Curator Mag – Wole Lagunju – Painting Back To The Empire
1-54 Studio Visit Series: Wole Lagunju
Wole Lagunju – Harpers Bazaar Arabia Winter 2019
Public Collections
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri, United States of America
African First Collection, Jaffa, Israel
Collection Leridon, Paris, France
Denver Art Museum, Colorado, United States of America
World Bank, Washington DC, United States of America
Foundation Frances, New Jersey, United States of America
Marres Huis voor Hedendaagse Cultuur, Netherlands, Europe