Artist, Facilitator, Community Organiser, Scientist.
Oluwatobiloba
(Tobi)
Adebajo.
Profile
Tobi Adebajo is a versatile and pioneering figure in the creative sphere, embracing various roles as an anti-disciplinary artist, writer, and birth and death doula. From exploring the realities of existing as a Black, Queer,Trans, Disabled person, to creating unique audio-visual pieces, Tobi aims to elicit curated reactions from the viewer. Utilising artistic mediums like sound, movement, visual and written pieces, their practice draws from all the senses and relies upon meaningful collaboration to create work centralising diasporic experiences.They present evidence of communal and spiritual languages that we possess but may be unable to access, framing this language as a basis for collective healing and liberation.
Exhibitions
Decriminalised Futures. ICA, London
Ìpàdé wá bí oyin. Dakar Biennale, Dakar
Shapes We Make, Spaces We Take. BFI Flare, London
The Future is Loading. Shape Arts, London
Black Trans Archive. Science Gallery, London + Online
Factory Exhibition. 198 Contemporary Arts, London
The Othere’d Artist/s. Transmission Gallery, Glasglow
2022
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
Commissions
BBC Radio 4 Short Cuts
Holding Yours, Gathering Ours. Kinfolk Network, London
PRS New Music Commission, Melton
For Us. Unlimited, UK
Filmpro Online. Filmpro, UK
CBT presents “Pull Requests”. Tate Modern, London
2023
2022
2021
2021
2020
2018
Artistic Achievements
Filmography
KORO (SEED) (2022), Transitions I & II (2020-2021), Gravity in the
Fabric of Time (2020), Permutation – Wild Shifts (2020), Collective
Breathing (2020), Illusions (2019), Eat Shit! (2019)
Music Videos
Kaguya (2020), Natural Ones (2019), Wastewomxn (2017), I Just
Wanna Be (2016)
Residencies
Ugly Duck, London (2023), Drake Music Digital Residency (2021),
Raven Row, London (2019), We Dey, Vienna (2019)
Awards and Scholarships
Film Futura ‘23 (2023)
Serpentine Support Structures Fellowship, London (2022)
INELDA End of Life Doula Scholarship (2021)
Education
2023 Afro-Futurism on Screen Film School
2023 SEMA Music Production Course. Nairobi, Kenya
2021 INELDA End of Life Doula Training
2020 Birth and Post Natal Doula Training
2019 Through the Door Improv Course. London
2015-2019 BSc Biomedical Science. University of Greenwich
Skills
Ableton Live
Final Cut Pro
Live Looping
Recordist
Sound Design / Composition
Podcast Production