Location: Oakland, CA
Medium: Sculpture, installation, performance, sound, choreography
Website: cultexhibitions.com/artists/BINTA-AYOFEMI
Binta Ayofemi (b. Brooklyn, New York) is an Oakland-based visual artist and urban space practitioner. She holds an MFA in studio art from Stanford University. She is the founder of YARD, an organization that reclaims abandoned and underutilized buildings and lots in Oakland, transforming them into spaces for Black art, community, and imagination. Her work is inspired by the Black Panthers, the Shakers, and Afrofuturist thought.
Ayofemi shapes new urban forms and materials to evoke power, Black space, and the senses. Her practice moves between sculpture, installation, choreography, sound, and the activation of urban space — vacant lots, storefronts, industrial buildings — as a primary medium. She approaches urban vacancy as both material and proposition, generating works that explore themes of displacement, Black land, radical imagination, and the commons. Her Black Land series and Black Space / Black Storefronts project generate new narratives around urban voids and economy; her Land Back, Land Black artwork experience celebrates Black and Indigenous presence.
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