BIMBOLA AKINBOLA is an artist, performer, and educator currently based in Chicago. Working at the intersection of theory, performance, and visual art, her scholarly and artistic work is concerned with the complicated and nagging nature of belonging, queerness, and the concept of family. Incorporating a variety of practices from painting, to weaving, to durational movement, her work explores mark-making and performance as modes of organization, remembrance, and repair. Bimbola has shown work at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Compound Yellow, Center on Halsted, The Riverside Arts Center and Roman Susan, and has collaborated on creative projects with universities across the country. She is an Assistant Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University.
Photo of Bimbola Akinbola; Evidence, 2023, live performance at The Other Art Fair, Chicago
Bio as of 6/2024