Oyindamola Fakeye
Oyindamola Fakeye is a Cultural Producer working to facilitate contemporary arts education, events and exhibitions. She is the current Artistic Director of the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos (CCA, Lagos), where she co founded the Video Art Network Lagos, alongside artist Jude Anogwih and Emeka Ogboh (2009). Oyindamola is a Director of Special Projects for the Global Arts in Medicine Fellowship training art and healthcare practitioners globally on best practices within the field. Oyindamola is a Company Director for Res Artis the worldwide professional body for artists residencies, sitting on the steering committee for the annual international conferences; London 2023 and Taipei 2024.
Oyindamola trained under Bisi Silva at CCA, Lagos where she coordinated projects such as; Prêt-à-Partager (2010) in conjunction with the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Germany, and J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere, Sartorial Moments and the Nearness of Yesterday (2010). In 2009 she co-curated Identity: An Imagined State alongside Jude Anogwih, the first video art exhibition in Nigeria, featuring the work of 12 local and international lens-based media artists.
Her international projects include; Africa Reflected screening at the Netherlands Media Art Institute (2009), co-curating Afiriperforma performing arts festival Harare, Zimbabwe (2013) and Afirika Savoies Chambery, France (2019). In 2014 she commissioned works by Nigerian artists, as part of the Commonwealth Games cultural programme at the David Dale gallery, Glasgow, entitled Owambe.
Oyindamola has facilitated several new media art initiatives; three editions of the International Video Art Festival Lagos, which featured work from India, Sweden and Indonesia alongside Nigerian works. Hosted community video art screenings in Southern Malian towns; Sikasso and Segou, in collaboration with Centre Soleil for Caravane Faiva (2012), in order to reach new audiences. Produced Virtual reality screenings in Lagos as part of the ACDF (2017), Art Summit (2018), 1.54 (special projects) New York (2018) and Augmented Reality installations in London (2019) as part of the Lagos Biennial run up event at the Project Space, Yinka Shonibare Studio.
Oyindamola was co-curator of the Lagos Biennial II “How to build a Lagoon with Just a Bottle of Wine” alongside Antawan Byrd and Tosin Oshinowo, which took place within the abandoned Independence House building (2019). As part of The Oceans and The Interpreters, multi-year partnership between Nigeria and Taiwan, Oyindamola co-curated the exhibition screening The Deep City at the Hong-Gah Museum Taipei, Taiwan, which featured the video works of 18 (Nigerian and South Asian) artists.
Experimenting more as a result of the global lockdown Oyindamola co-curated three virtual exhibitions under Arts in Medicine Projects; Art Responders: COVID-19 Contemporary Collection, an exhibition featuring submitted works responding to the global pandemic, ‘The Diary of a Frontliner: COVID-19, An Exhibition of Photography features the works of Dr Femi Adewuyi a medical doctor serving on the frontline at an isolation center in Lagos and Mental Health Through the Lens of Art.
Against the backdrop of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic Oyindamola produced ‘The Art and Tech Podcast’ focused on Nigeria the podcast also captured how the sector responded to the global pandemic. In 2022 Oyindamola was the Creative Producer for the 360 degree (VR) film Moving Between, a 360 degree virtual experience of the Kofar-Mata dye pit, a cultural and historical site in Kano Nigeria, where fabrics are dyed using sustainable resist indigo tie and dye techniques.
During her tenure at The Centre for Contemporary Art Lagos she has co-curated ‘The ()ther Room’ an interactive exhibition using visual, sound & performance to speak to the different ways in which womxn artists are reconfiguring womxnhood in relation to their personal and cultural experiences. The exhibition was also accompanied by the podcast series ‘Speaking for Myself’ conversations that featured influential womxn in West Africa’s cultural sector. In 2022 she curated ‘Looking Forward to Looking Back: CCA,Lagos at 15’ an archival exhibition that examines the centre's fifteen year history through documentation gathered over the years.
Oyindamola regularly consults to support learning and participation, digital collaboration, creative entrepreneurship, grant giving and cultural relations within the creative industries. As an arts administrator and consultant she has managed the £1,000,000 Digital Collaboration Fund for the British Council, offering grants between the UK and various countries in Wider Europe, East Asia, South Asia, the America's, the Middle East and Africa. Oyindamola also successfully led her team at CCA, Lagos through a $1,000,000 fundraising effort alongside Sothebys to purchase and renovate the site in which the center is located.