June 2026
Anthony Akinbola
Film directed by Alexa Caravia for Fountainhead Arts
Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola is a Nigerian-American artist (b. 1991, Columbia, Missouri) working across painting and sculpture, whose practice centers on the use of found objects associated with African-American culture. His work explores the dual nature of these materials as both intimate markers of identity and symbols of mass production, examining the intersections of commercialization, cultural representation, and personal experience. Central to his practice is the ongoing Camouflage series, in which he assembles and sews together durags of varying textures, colors, and materials to create compositions that engage with the legacies of abstract painting and art history more broadly. Through subtle chromatic transitions and bold gestural arrangements, Akinbola expands the expressive potential of this ubiquitous object, transforming it into a visual language that both celebrates and critiques the commodification of Black identity. His sculptural works further extend these investigations, incorporating minimally altered found materials to reflect on systems of cultural production, resource circulation, and lived experience.