Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
Four solo shows in Dubai, Paris and Luxembourg, 2022 – 2025.
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The Becoming
9 Nov 2024 – 11 Jan 2025 -
Mirrored City
8 Feb – 16 Mar 2024 -
Interwoven Existences
16 Mar – 27 May 2023 -
Echoes of Servitude
11 May – 25 Jun 2022
In focus · Solo exhibition, 2024–25
The Becoming
Paintings on marriage across Nigerian cultures: its values, expectations and myths, and what sustains a union.
The works also follow life’s everyday passages, from childhood to adulthood, and the importance of family. It was Toluwani’s second solo show in Dubai.
Exhibition on Zidoun-Bossuyt
In focus · Solo exhibition, 2024
Mirrored City
Inspired by Makoko, the floating community on the Lagos lagoon, the paintings look at how a city reveals itself in its reflections.
Tribal marks and the scars inherited from slavery, at once identification and adornment, return as ancestral symbols that Toluwani reads anew, at times with a sense of exaltation.
Exhibition on Zidoun-Bossuyt
In focus · Solo exhibition, 2023
Interwoven Existences
Toluwani’s first solo exhibition in Europe turned to the animal kingdom, and its quiet, often-overlooked place in human life.
The paintings explore the interplay between people and animals through themes of beauty, death and our relationship with the natural world. Works on view included Duke, Queen Yelena, Akinkanju, Black Cowboy, Ewa Beauty and Wife of Akenge.
Exhibition on Zidoun-BossuytIn focus · Solo exhibition, 2022
Echoes of Servitude
Toluwani’s first solo exhibition with the gallery took a critical look at the lives of Black women in the Victorian era.
Adire, Adinkra and Nsibidi motifs, raised in high relief, carry the paintings’ reflections on the legacy of slavery, colonial encounters and the resilience of African peoples.
Exhibition on Zidoun-Bossuyt