The Armory Show

As part of The Armory Show’s Function section, curated by Ebony L. Haynes, Morán Morán presents two new paintings and a wallpaper by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones. These works merge design and art, drawing on the artist’s Yoruban heritage and reverence for nature. Adeniyi-Jones brings vibrant, foliage-filled, rhythmic landscapes to the forefront, allowing figuration to melt into abstraction. Human and environment dissolve into one, echoing the romanticist idea of our inseparability from nature. Here, the artist invites viewers to personify the natural world and find sentience in what is often seen as inert—plants, objects, or the art itself.

Tunji Adeniyi-Jones was born in London in 1992 and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. In 2014 he received his Bachelor’s in fine arts from The Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University, UK and in 2017 he was awarded an MFA in painting and printmaking from Yale School of Art, Connecticut, USA.

Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Deep Dive’, White Cube Hong Kong (2023); ‘Spotlight’, FLAG Art Foundation, New York (2023); ‘Tranquil Dive’, Morán Morán, Mexico City (2023); ‘Emergent Properties’, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York (2022); ‘Voix Intérieures’, White Cube, Paris (2022); ‘Astral Reflections’, Charleston, East Sussex, UK (2021); ‘That Which Binds Us’, White Cube, Bermondsey, London (2021); and ‘Melodic Virtues’, Morán Morán, Los Angeles (2021).