Born in 1991, Columbia, MO. Lives and works in New York, NY. 

SELECTED SOLO and TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2024 Western Beef, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria

Good Hair, Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art,

Savannah, GA
Color Fields, with Huh Myoungwook, curated by Night Gallery

at Various Small Fires, Seoul, Korea
Monty Hall, Mobile Art Gallery at Randall Recreation Center,

Washington, D.C.

2023 Sweet Tooth, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2022 Natural Beauty, Sean Kelly, New York, NY

Multilateral, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria

2021 Schottenfeld Atelier, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria

Thanks A Million, Carbon 12, Dubai

Market, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Magic City, John Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI

by Fire by Force, FALSE FLAG, New York, NY

2020 Cousins, FALSE FLAG Gallery, Queens, NY

LOCAL IMPORT, Museum of Art and Design, Manhattan, NY

2018 CAMOUFLAGE, Queens Museum, Queens, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 The Abstract Future, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2024 The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century,

Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH

The Poetics of Dimensions, Institute of Contemporary Art

San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Midsommar, Bode, Berlin, Germany

Xippi, Heritage, and Metamorphosis: Voices in West African Art,

The August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Pittsburgh, PA

By Way Of: Material and Motion in the Guggenheim Collection,

curated by Naomi Beckwith, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

2023 Group presentation with Carbon 12, Art Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi,

United Arab Emirates
The Poetics of Dimensions, curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah,

UBS Art Studio at Art Basel Miami Beach Convention Center,

Miami, FL
Tracing Lineage: Abstraction and its Aftermath,

curated by Margarita Karasoulas, Bruce
Museum, Greenwich, CT
Amy Sherald's Portrait of Breonna Taylor:

In the Garden, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century,

Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century,

Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Not for Sale, NXTHVN, New Haven, CT 

2022 Faking the Real, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria

BLACK, The KNOW Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
THIS IS NOT WHAT IT SEEMS, Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery, NY
The New Bend, Curated by Legacy Russell, Hauser & Wirth,

New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA

2021 What It’s All About, Jenkins-Johnson Gallery, New York, NY
Convergent Evolutions, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
Idealistic, Curated by Mike Moseby, University Art Museum,

Albany, NY

2020 Elements of …, Pt.2 Gallery, Oakland, CA

Unbound, Zuckerman Museum, Atlanta, GA

2019 19191919, New Image Gallery, New York, NY

2018 Same Difference, Miranda Kuo Gallery, New York, NY

2017 Crossworks, Dordyart, Dordrecht, Netherlands

2015 Frontline, City Bird Gallery, New York, NY

RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS

2024 Dragon Hill Residency, Mouans-Sartoux, France

Black Rock Residency, Dakar, Senegal

2022 Silver Art Projects, New York, NY

2021 Galerie Krinzinger Residency, Vienna, Austria

2020 Galerie Krinzinger Residency, Vienna, Austria

2019 Museum of Art and Design MAD Fellowship, New York, NY

2018 Anderson Ranch Art Center Residency, Snowmass, CO

Dordtyart Crossworks Residency, Dordrecht, Netherlands

Verbeke Foundation Residency, Kemzeke, Belgium 

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
The Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection
The Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH
Zabludowicz Collection, London, United Kingdom

SELECTED PRESS 

2024 Tom Denman, “Dragon Hill X ArtReview Writers Residency:

Tom Denman,” Art Review, August 19

Swarna Gowtham, “ 8 Artists to Watch in 2024” L’OFFICIEL, May 7

Kareema Thomas, "Things Fall Apart," X-TRA, February 28

2023 Vittoria Benzine, "10 Art World Professionals on How to Land Your

First Big Break,” Cultured, August 16

Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi, “Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola at Night

Gallery,” Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, August

2023 (print)

Saranna Zhang, “Rising Artists Get Another Houston Showcase—

A City Where Fresh Works Are Treasured,” PaperCity, July 18

Tony Parker, “Curator’s Choice: The Next Generation of Masters

in Black Contemporary Art,” Artsy, July 10

Taylor Dafoe, “Black Rock Senegal, Kehinde Wiley’s Closely Watched

Artist Residency, Has Welcomed a New Class of 16 Artists—

Meet Them Here, ” Artnet News, July 5

André-Naquian Wheeler, "This Nigerian-American Artist Uses Durags

As His Medium," Vogue, April 25

Ann Binlot, "These are the 5 NYC Artists to Know Right Now,"

Highsnobiety, April 11

Olisa Tasie-Amadi Jr., "Anthony Akinbola: Beauty in Limitations,"

tmrw, March 30

Jesse Doris, "Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola Wields Simple Yet

Loaded Materials," Surface, March 27

2022 Artsy Editorial, "The Artsy Vanguard 2022," Artsy, November 15

Artnet News Editors, “10 Must-See Gallery Shows in Los Angeles

This Month, From Vintage Cindy Sherman Photographs to

Sand-Inflected Abstractions,” Artnet News, October 4

Ayanna Dozier, “The 10 Best Booths at The Armory Show 2022,”

Artsy, September 9

Anna Rahmanan, “11 interesting works to catch at Frieze Art Fair

this weekend,” Timeout,

 May 20

Artnet News Editors, “In Pictures: See How a New Cohort of

Contemporary Textile

Artists Are Taking Quilting in Challenging New Directions,

Artnet News, February 21

Folasade Ologundudu, “10 Emerging Black Artists Show That

Blackness Is Not a Monolith,” Artsy, February 10

2021 Artsy Curatorial and Artsy Editorial, “5 Artists on Our Radar in

June 2021,” Artsy, June 1

2020 Hey, It’s Bunmi!, Sebastian Jean, Office Magazine, August 25

Fibre Art, Anna Sansom, The Design Edit, April 2

Anthony Akinbola’s Durag Paintings Subvert Power Dynamics in

Museum Spaces, Taylor Hosking, VICE, April 10