Biography
Tami Soji-Akinyemi’s process-led works are imbued with an evolving symbology of mark-making, rooted in the poetics of agency. Her research explores how tensions within blackness, womanhood and spirituality affect the enactment and meaning of marks at the intersections of image, language and matter. Marks like the ‘puncture’, serve as diagrammatic and dramaturgic devices for mapping, undoing and remaking power dynamics; marks witness, withhold and encode nested narratives, unearthing connections between the immaterial and material worlds.
Tami Soji-Akinyemi (London, UK) is an artist living and working in London. She received her MA in Painting, Royal College of Art (2022) and BA in Fashion Design, University of Creative Arts, Epsom (2014). Solo exhibitions: A.Passage, Commonage Projects (2023). Group exhibitions: Aleph, Redeye x HSBC, London (2025); The Ingram Prize Exhibition 2024, Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop, London (2024), Painting (at the moment), 0207 Gallery, (2024); Stretching the Light, Rele Gallery, London (2024); Premise, Queen Alexandra’s House, London (2024); To Find, To Hold, To Share, Hockney Gallery, London (2024); Subject to Change, Swivel Gallery, New York (2023). She was the recipient of The Ingram Founder’s Prize 2024.