Artists Adeyemi Adebayo
SUMMER 2024 RESIDENT · JUN – SEP
Adeyemi Adebayo
Photography
Adeyemi Adebayo is a documentary photographer and environmental scientist born in Osun, Nigeria, in 1996, and now based in Massachusetts. His practice examines home, belonging and migration. He joined Manchester AIR at The Factory on Willow in Manchester, New Hampshire, for the Summer 2024 session.
About the work
Adebayo describes himself as someone who walks often and occasionally raises a camera. Sometimes he asks a subject to let him into their life, and the resulting images are collaborations. His work moves between documentary observation and conceptual interpretation, combining photography with oral histories and text to show how people negotiate identity across borders. He is also interested in photography as a way of talking with our environment, and in archival work in African photography.
Selected highlights
Mutating Origins: Collapsing of the Here and There, MFA thesis exhibition, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst (2026)
Mutating Origins, exhibited at the Split Level Gallery at 33 Hawley, Northampton, and AIRSpace Gallery, Amherst
MFA in Studio Art, University of Massachusetts Amherst
