Jadesola Olaniyan (b. 1997) is a visual artist, independent curator and anthropologist born and based in Lagos, Nigeria. She completed her BA (Hons.) in Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, focusing on museum studies and visual culture (2016-2021).

Her career has been marked by projects completed with institutions and organizations such as UBC’s Laboratory of Archaeology, The Museum of Anthropology (Vancouver), SMO Contemporary Art, and ‘Failed State’. Her curatorial work has varied within the realms of collections-based research projects, and art and museum exhibitions of varying scales.

Olaniyan’s curatorial perspective is informed by theories of memory, consciousness and existentialism, especially in the context of how they relate to the tangible and intangible. Her main goal as a curator is to document the emergence of these themes through the mobilization of thought by extending her projects beyond the walls of gallery spaces and into the daily lives of artists and non-artists alike. This perspective calls on the implementation of experimental and collaborative approaches to find solutions to problems affecting the work of artists in her community.