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Hi, I'm Babatunde-Tribe Akande

Lagos, Nigeria

Babatunde-Tribe Akande is a multidisciplinary artist, human rights artivist, researcher, and experimental documentary filmmaker based in Lagos, Nigeria. Their work explores themes of intersectionality, decolonization, unity, identity, sprituality and human connectivity they are committed to using art as a tool for social change. Babatunde-Tribe is...

Creative Statement

My practice moves across painting, sculpture, installation, sound, and performance to explore how we live together inside systems that divide us culturally, spiritually, territorially, and within our own bodies. I am interested in the tension between rupture and connection: how something can be broken and still belong. My earlier paintings began wi...

Biography

Babatunde-Tribe Akande is a queer- nonbinary multidisciplinary artist, human rights artivist, researcher, and experimental documentary filmmaker based in Lagos, Nigeria. Their work explores themes of intersectionality, decolonization, unity, identity, sprituality and human connectivity they are committed to using art as a tool for social change. Ba...

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Recognitions/Residency

International Art Contest for Minority Artists Winner by the OHCHR, United Nations.Geneva, Switzerland. (Winner)
Bertha Artivism Award (Selected Artivist)
Fak'ugesi Awards, . South Africa (Nominated)
The Equality Awards, Emerging Creative of the Year (Winner)

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