Rotimi Fani-Kayode

Nigerian | 1955 - 1989

Rotimi Fani-Kayode was a Nigerian Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1955. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Tate Modern have featured Rotimi Fani-Kayode's work in the past.Rotimi Fani-Kayode's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 4,927 USD to 8,619 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2019 the record price for this artist at auction is 8,619 USD for Untitled, sold at Piasa in 2019. Rotimi Fani-Kayode has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for Aesthetica in June 2025. The artist died in 1989.

At Auction

Notable Lots

Every Mother's Son/Children of Suffering, 1989/2018

By Rotimi Fani-Kayode

Every Moment Counts, Ecstatic Antibodies

By Rotimi Fani-Kayode

+11%

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Untitled ,1989

By Rotimi Fani-Kayode

+1%

above mid-estimate

Recent Auction Results

Every Moment Counts, Ecstatic Antibodies

By Rotimi Fani-Kayode

+11%

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Untitled ,1989

By Rotimi Fani-Kayode

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Every Mother's Son/Children of Suffering, 1989/2018

By Rotimi Fani-Kayode

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Past Exhibitions

Rotimi Fani-Kayode: Tranquility Of Communion

The Polygon Gallery

North Vancouver | British Columbia | Canada

Feb 28,2025 - May 25,2025

A World in Common. Contemporary African Photography

C/O Berlin

Berlin | Germany

Feb 01,2025 - May 07,2025

Rotimi Fani-Kayode: The Studio 鈥� Staging Desire

Autograph ABP

Shoreditch | London | UK

Oct 31,2024 - Mar 22,2025

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Articles

Aesthetica 11/06/2025

In the early morning of June 28, 1969, the New York Police Department raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Lower Manhattan.

Frieze Magazine 21/05/2025

At The Phillips Collection, an exhibition maps the poet鈥檚 radical networks 鈥� offering both homage and a quiet indictment of the city that let his world disappear.

Wallpaper 26/02/2025

Read our pick of the best London art exhibitions to see this month, from The Face Magazine retrospective at The National Portrait Gallery to Alvaro Barrington at Sadie Coles HQ.

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Coverage

鈥� ..Although his career was cut short by his untimely death at the age of 34, Fani-Kayode nonetheless remains one of the most significant names in the history of black photography... 鈥�
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Tiwani Contemporary

鈥� ..Fani-Kayode's photographic portraits explore complex personal and politically-engaged notions of desire, spirituality and cultural dislocation... 鈥�
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Tiwani Contemporary

鈥� ..Hence Fani-Kayode uses the medium of photography not only to question issues of sexuality and homoerotic desire, but also to address themes of diaspora and belonging, and the tensions between his homosexuality... 鈥�
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Tiwani Contemporary

鈥� ..Fani-Kayode鈥檚 photographic portraits explore complex personal and politically-engaged notions of desire, spirituality, and cultural dislocation... 鈥�
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