MFA 2025 Artists MFA 2025 Artists: Kofoworola Adebiyi

About Kofoworola Adebiyi

Kofoworola Adebiyi is an interdisciplinary artist whose work in painting and poetry evocatively attends to matters of human psychology. Born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria, Adebiyi relocated to the United States to pursue her Bachelors at the University of Rhode Island, where she completed separate degrees in both Fine Arts and Medical Laboratory Sciences. Her work reveals a fascination with the distinctive capacity of painting to address human development and psychological woundedness, which she explores in connection to her Christian faith and cultural identity. Adebiyi is currently an MFA candidate at UMass Dartmouth, and has exhibited nationally and internationally within the United States and West Africa.

Statement

My work in painting and sound poetry engages life as experienced beyond the physicality of the human body. Through rendering the figure, I engage personal and vicarious stories of woundedness and transformation, conveying marked experiences able to shape one's identity. The identities in my work emerge as both children and adults, expressing themselves through multilayered intimate environments which uncover moments of psychological impact across a lifespan. I consider the human mind a field of exploration, imbued with clues toward identity. What shapes us and how have we experienced brokenness? What has wounded and perhaps continues to wound us, and how do those experiences fashion and reinforce the identities we currently project? I am moved by these explorations as they hold value towards healing, both in the individualistic and communal sense.

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Kofoworola Adebiyi

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