Kayode Ojo

Kayode Ojo works across sculpture, installation, painting, video, and photography. His practice explores seductive moments in consumerist culture, analyzing status symbols, social reputation, and the iconography of desire. Using objects sourced online, he transforms everyday items into glamorous, suggestive assemblages that flirt with ideas of wealth, decadence, and aspiration. Conceived with an eye for staging, his sculptures evoke a drama of looking—a kind of voyeurism or scopophilia—while his captions, drawn from product descriptions, read like deadpan consumerist poetry. Alongside these, Ojo’s photographs capture nightlife scenes where jewelry, fashion, and bodies become props of seduction. Whether arranging chandeliers, perfume bottles, or evening dresses, his work plays with illusion, turning mass-produced materials into objects that radiate glamour, excess, and intrigue.

Kayode Ojo (b. 1990, Cookeville, USA) lives and works in New York. He graduated from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 2012. His first solo exhibition with Balice Hertling took place in 2017. Recent solo exhibitions include An angel is just a messenger (Maureen Paley, London, 2025); Me & U (Sweetwater, Berlin, 2024); and EDEN (David Zwirner's 52 Walker space, New York, 2023). He has also participated in group exhibitions such as KALEIDOSCOPE at Espace Niemeyer (Paris, 2024), Kestner Gesellschaft (Hannover, 2022), Greater New York at MoMA PS1 (New York, 2021 - 2022), and the Athens Biennial (Athens, 2021), among many others.