Jadé Fadojutimi
Jadé Fadojutimi is a British artist working within Contemporary Art, widely recognized for large-scale abstract paintings characterized by dynamic gesture, saturated color and fluid movement. Her works blend abstraction with suggested figuration, creating pictorial environments that evoke memory, emotion and psychological presence. Fadojutimi often orchestrates forms that appear in motion, with shapes emerging and dissolving across the surface in a rhythm that reflects both control and intuitive exploration.
Fadojutimi’s visual language draws on diverse influences, from Japanese anime and fashion to art history and personal experience, with color functioning as both structural framework and expressive force. Her work engages with contemporary dialogues around identity, perception and the emotional landscape of painting.
Jadé Fadojutimi biography and artistic context
Jadé Fadojutimi was born in 1993 in London, England, and grew up in Ilford as the eldest of three daughters. She studied painting at the Slade School of Fine Art (BA, 2015) and completed her MA at the Royal College of Art in London (2017). Fadojutimi lives and works in London.
Her abstract painting practice is known for its monumental scale, rhythmic gesture and emotive use of color. Fadojutimi synthesises energetic mark-making with references drawn from a wide range of source material, including Japanese anime, clothing, Victorian furniture and modern painting traditions, allowing her work to navigate between personal experience and broader visual culture.
Her debut solo exhibitions in London galleries quickly led to institutional attention, including a major solo presentation at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, and subsequent solo shows in Tokyo, Naples and New York. Fadojutimi has also participated in international exhibitions that situate her within contemporary painting discourse.
Notable artworks and series by Jadé Fadojutimi
Large-scale abstract paintings - Monumental works characterised by dynamic gesture, saturated color and layered mark-making, often exploring emotional presence and memory.
Heliophobia (2017–2018) - A solo exhibition in London that highlighted early explorations of emotional vulnerability, threshold states and expressive abstraction.
The Numbing Vibrancy of Characters in Play (2019) - Paintings exploring psychological presence through rhythmic, gestural abstraction — Fadojutimi’s first solo exhibition in a UK public institution.
Jesture (2020) — response to disrupted rhythms of daily life through expressive mark-making.
Yet, Another Pathetic Fallacy (2021) — first solo museum presentation, ICA Miami.
Memory in Translation (2022, Tokyo) — engagement with personal experience and cultural sources.
Why Wilt When? When Wilt Why? A Smile Can Appear in an Echo of Laughter (2023, Naples).
Connecting in Silence (2024, Kyoto) and DWELVE: A Goosebump in Memory (2024, New York).
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Jadé Fadojutimi is a British artist working within Contemporary Art, widely recognized for large-scale abstract paintings characterized by dynamic gesture, saturated color and fluid movement. Her works blend abstraction with suggested figuration, creating pictorial environments that evoke memory, emotion and psychological presence. Fadojutimi often orchestrates forms that appear in motion, with shapes emerging and dissolving across the surface in a rhythm that reflects both control and intuitive exploration.
Fadojutimi’s visual language draws on diverse influences, from Japanese anime and fashion to art history and personal experience, with color functioning as both structural framework and expressive force. Her work engages with contemporary dialogues around identity, perception and the emotional landscape of painting.
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