Akinsola Lawanson is an artist with a background in Chemical Engineering and Software Engineering. Through different mediums such as moving image, video game engines and motorised sculptures; their practice explores a variety of concepts including relational systems, cybernetics and process philosophy
Education
2011-2015: University of Nottingham, UK / MEng Chemical and Environmental Engineering
2020-2022: Goldsmiths College, UK / MA Computational Arts
Exhibitions
2025: `fields, factories and workshops`/ A Long Way/ Set Lewisham, London, UK (group show)
2025: `Fatal Tide`/ Kontext Film Festival/ SET Social, London, UK (film festival)
2024: `Bosode`/ B3 Biennial of the Moving Image/ ASTOR Film Lounge MyZeil , Frankfurt, Germany (film festival)
2024: `Trip2TheMoon`/ Portals: Bending Spacetime/ 198 Contemporary, London, UK (group show)
2024: `Stuck In A Loop`/ Comms/ SET Woolwich, London, UK (group show)
2023: `Cosmic Control Panel`/ Manchester Art Fair/ Manchester Contemporary, Manchester, UK (group show)
2023: `Bosode`/ I Put A Spell On You/ Art Exchange + Focal Point, Essex, UK (group show)
2023: `Ile oba t’o Jo, ewa lo Busi`/ Stilled Images/ Tube Gallery, Mallorca, Spain (group show)
2023: `Stuck In A Loop`/ Celestial Gestures/ U10, Belgrade, Serbia (duo show)
2023: `Ile oba t’o Jo, ewa lo Busi Trailer`/ Tangle of Static/ VO Curations Project Space, London UK (group show)
2023: `Fluid_Memories_Exp_3`/ Voices/ Maritime Museum, Lancaster, UK (group show)
2022: `Bosode`/ New Contemporaries 2022: London/ South London Gallery, London, UK (group show)
2022: `Fluid_Memories_Exp_1`/ Schemes and Schemas/ Hartslane, London, UK (group show)
2022: `Bosode`/ New Contemporaries 2022: Hull/ Humber Street Gallery, Hull, UK (group show)
2022: `TRIP2THEMOON`/ Scene From Here/ South Kiosk, London, UK (group show)
2022: `Bosode: The Audio Play`/ Future Artefact/ RTM FM, UK (radio show)
2021: `Sun, Moon, Hammer and Sickle`/ Ghost Show/ Hartslane, London, UK (group show)
Awards
SET Film Festival Accelerator Programme, 2026
Studio Four at Chisenhale Studio, 2026
Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network Fellowship, 2023 - 2024
Develop Your Creative Practice, 2023
Selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries, 2022