Tunji Adeniyi-Jones

Nigeria / UK

Oil on canvas

Tunji Adeniyi-Jones (b. 1992, London) is one of the most rapidly rising painters in the contemporary market. His figurative canvases draw on Yoruba mythology, the African diaspora, and art historical traditions of the reclining figure. Solo exhibitions at White Cube New York and Seoul in 2025. Auction prices have exceeded $100,000. Works entering major institutional collections in the USA and Europe. Represented by White Cube.

Adeniyi-Jones places figures drawn from Yoruba cosmology inside the compositional conventions of Western figurative painting — and in doing so, questions who those conventions were built for. His canvases are simultaneously mythological, personal, and political.