Peju Alatise

Artist, Architect, Author · Alter Native Artists Initiative (ANAI)

Peju Alatise (b. Lagos, 1975) lives and works between Lagos, Nigeria and Glasgow, UK. She is an interdisciplinary artist, architect and author of two novels. Alatise began her professional career as an architect, studying at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Nigeria, while managing a private art studio. She produces works across a variety of mediums, techniques and materials, including paintings, film, installations and sculptures. Alatise’s work has been exhibited in New York, Florence, Morocco, and London. At the 2017 Venice Biennale, her striking life-sized installation Flying Girls was featured in the Nigeria Pavilion. Among her many accolades are a fellowship from the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art and the FNB Art Prize in Johannesburg. Alatise’s evolving subject matter explores broader themes of universal consciousness and change. She is also the founder of Alter Native Artists Initiative (ANAI), a nonprofit artist incubator and collective dedicated to the development of visual arts in Nigeria.

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