Olalekan Jeyifous received a BArch from Cornell University in May of 2000. He is a Nigerian-born, Brooklyn-based visual artist whose work has been exhibited at venues such as the MoMA, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, the Vitra Design Museum, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, and CCCB in Barcelona as a participant in the “Making Africa” exhibit.
Olalekan has received a number of awards and grants for his artwork such as a fellowship from the New York Foundation of the Arts in the category of Architecture and Environmental Studies, and grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and the Brooklyn Arts Council. He has completed Artist's Residencies with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Visible Futures Lab at the School of Visual Arts, The MacDowell Colony, Headlands Center for the Arts, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and the Emerging Artist Fellowship at the Socrates Sculpture Park. Olalekan is also currently a participant in the Drawing Center’s Open Sessions program.