Tobi Alexandra Falade

Tobi Alexandra Falade (b. 1995, Nigeria) is a visual artist and curator who is enthusiastic about projects which connect with narratives of blackness and her artistic practices in centered around creating oil paintings that engage with African and post-colonial dialogues. Tobi is co-founder of Platform Black, which works to highlight, support and provide a community of black creatives through talks, workshops and events.

Tobi was iniva/Barbican Curatorial Trainee (2021-2022) supporting iniva’s Research Network programme: Archipelagoes in Reverse, DRIFT – a post-national digital pavilion. She has recently curated Dancing In The Ellipsis // A Cartographer’s Black Hole at Stuart Hall Library, iniva (2022), Sun At Night, Shilpa Gupta at Barbican (2021) and Rest and Repair, Street Gallery, Platform Black x University College Hospital London (2021).