OVERVIEW | CV | GALLERY EXHIBITIONS
LAYO BRIGHT
B. 1991 Lagos, Nigeria
Lives and works: Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION
MFA, Parsons the New School of Design, New York, NY, USA
The Nigerian Law School, Lagos, Nigeria
L.L.B, Babcock University, Ogun State, Nigeria
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Heartwood, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Dawn and Dusk, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2022 Rockhaven, moniquemeloche, Chicago, IL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Saturn Gives Structure to the Dream, Superposition Gallery, New York, NY
2023 Neo-Custodians: Woven Narratives of Heritage, Cultural Memory and Belonging, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
Two Way Mirror: Double Consciousness in Contemporary Glass by Black Artists, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
The Glass Show, Halsey McKay Gallery, New York, NY
Between the Seams, PM/AM Gallery, London, England
The Alchemists, Johnson Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Death of Beauty, Sargent’s Daughters, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Undercurrents, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
moniquemeloche presents…, Lubeznik Center for the Arts, IN, USA
Woman to Woman, Bode Projects, Berlin, Germany
2021 House of Crowns, Phillips, NY
The Meeting Point, RegularNormal Gallery & ARTNOIR, NY, USA
Faces of the Hero: From New York to Athens, Lincoln Center and Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, New York, NY and Athens, Greece
Ebony G. Patterson, Brittney Leeanne Williams, Layo Bright, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Showfields: Layo Bright & Adama Delphine Fawundu, Showfields, NY
To Heal and Protect, Welancora Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
I Am Not A Goddess…Unless I Say I Am, Alliance Française – Mike Adenuga Centre, Lagos, Nigeria
Something About Us, Anthony Gallery, Chicago, IL
2020 A Chance Encounter, Parts & Labor, NY, USA
Flat File 2020, Peep Space, NY
A Familiarity That Warms, Flux Factory, NY
Here We Are, BSB Gallery, Trenton, NJ
You Don’t See Me, Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space, NY
Migrations and Meanings in Art, Meyerhoff Gallery at Maryland Institute College of Art, MD
2019 Boiling Point, Superposition Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Interwoven, BSB Gallery, Trenton, NJ
in the eye of the needle, Tri-tryagain Studio, Brooklyn, NY
Wish You Were Here ‘19,A.I.R.Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Maid in Nigeria, AWCA, Lagos, Nigeria
2018Through Her Eye, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL
Carry Over: New Voices from the Global African Diaspora, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
The Hybrid of Being, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Westbeth Gallery, Chelsea, New York, NY
Growing Pebbles, Sleep Center, New York, NY
2017 Reality Check, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, New York, NY
2016 The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Lagos, Nigeria
2015 Group Exhibition at The Nimbus Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria
TEACHING & LECTURES
2023 Parsons Fine Arts Visiting Artist Lecture series, Parsons School of Design, New York NY
2022 Laurie Wagman Visiting Artist & AIR at Tyler School of Art, PA, USA
O1 Artist Visa lecture, Center for Art Law, NY, USA
2021 Artist Mentor for the Soul of Nations Foundation’s “Indigenous International: Green Architecture Project” (partly sponsored by the U.S. Consulate General in Lagos, Nigeria and the U.S. Department of State)
Artist Talk, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Visiting Artist Talk, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
2018 Professor, Department of Integrated Design, Parsons The New School of Design, New York, NY, USA