07/08/2025
Jadé Fadojutimi received a master’s degree in painting seven years ago, and since then has become one of the most prominent “ultra-contemporary” artists—a term that the art market has coined to designate practitioners born after 1974. Her paintings have been acquired by numerous international institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center, and the Tate. In 2022, when she was still not yet 30 years old, she was included in the Venice Biennale. This month Fadojutimi will have her first solo show in New York.
Fadojutimi’s paintings are large in scale: some of her canvases are 10 feet high and 16 feet wide, and she has gone even bigger. Within these ambitious dimensions, she creates intricate works that shimmer on the boundary between abstract and figurative. Amid vibrant gashes, iridescent arcs, and urgent lines, a viewer may discern the contours of leaves, flowers, butterfly wings, waves, or suns. “But Fadojutimi’s swirling images seem to capture a state of mind as much as they do a state of nature,” Rebecca Mead writes. “They are always energetic, and sometimes ecstatic, blooming into color and motion and light.” Read a profile of the artist, whose work is inspired by emotion, anime, and music: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/eRL4y-
