Join artist Oluseye and Julie Crooks, Curator, Arts of Global Africa and the Diaspora, in the gallery to celebrate the opening of the exhibition, Oluseye: Merindinlogun. Inspired by merindinlogun, a Yoruba divination ritual, Oluseye presents a new installation that illustrates the spiritual, mythological, and biographical elements that have shaped his worldview and art practice. Remarks at 2 pm. 

Oluseye (b.1986, London, UK) is a Nigerian-Canadian artist. His practice embraces Blackness and blends the ancestral with the contemporary and the physical with the spiritual. Oluseye has exhibited at the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Fransisco (2024); Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto (2024); Southern Guild Gallery, Cape Town (2023); the Gardiner Museum, Toronto (2023); Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo (2022); Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (2021); Agnes Etherington Art Center, Queen’s University, Kingston (2021); and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2015). In 2022, his first public art commission, Black Ark, was installed in Toronto’s Ashbridge’s Bay Park, and in Fall 2024 will embark on a tour of the Maritimes with stops at the Owens Art Gallery and The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.  His first permanent public sculpture will be unveiled in Toronto in 2026.