Oreoluwa Akinyode

I give thanks and reverence to Olodumare, the creator, my Ancestors, and my Orisa for all the ways they continue to breathe life into me and my destiny.

With them I am everything my destiny desires of me and more. Ase.

Thank you for taking time to witness me and the ways I see the world at this time.




2026 Selected Works
the door/the portal to the self portrait of the vessel the shadow, image on fabric printed on 11x17 kozo paper, 2025.
before i knew my name/she called onto me, 24”x 36” baryta print, 2025.
a layered ancestral touch, 8.5” x 11” inkjet print on thick natural kozo paper, 2025.
gesture to enter, 2025.
gratitude passing through, 8”x10” palladium print, 2025.
a gift from the ocean comes in threes, 24” x 30” baryta print mounted onto
aluminum panel 2025.
her gift from god is resilient, 11x17 print on kozo paper, 2025.
my story begun before i was born, 20”x 20” baryta print mounted onto
aluminum panel, 2025.
where the river and ocean meet, 20”x 20” baryta print mounted onto
aluminum panel, 2025.
restraint/a test of faith, 20” x 20” baryta print mounted on aluminum panel, 2025.
stills from my latest short film, that premiered august 14, 2025 in atlanta at tara theatre apart of my resisting narratives of erasure film fellowship.

indigo: in dey go, is an experimental choreopoem film gesturing an individual's descent to earth. indigo: in dey go mirrors the way spirit and memory are activated through a reflection of one's story beginning before they were born. 

 
her gift from god is resilient, 11”x17” print on kozo paper, self-portrait, 2025. Email  
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Oreoluwa Akinyode is a griot telling stories through the language of sound, moving, and still images, conjuring tender prayers of urgency that ask one to recall one’s history. Inherited from the artisans who came before them in their ancestral and photographic lineage, Oreoluwa utilizes analog and digital processes to exalt indigenous African spiritual traditions and tell stories drenched in destiny, history, emotion, and passion.  

Oreoluwa is currently a 2025 Flickr Foundation Research Fellow, a recent 2025 Resisting Narratives of Erasure Film Fellow.

From 2023-2025 Oreoluwa was apart of the inaugural cohort of Valerie J. Maynard Legacy Interns, from 2024-2025 a Baltimore Museum of Art Intern, and the 2024 Luminal Theatre Baltimore Fresh Black Films Audience Award Filmmaker.


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