yétúndé ọlágbajú is a research-based artist, creative producer, and cultural strategist living on Ohlone and Tataviam lands [Bay Area & Los Angeles, CA]. Their work roots in a single question: What must we reckon with as we build a future, together?
With no set answers or expectations, ọlágbajú unravels intricate connections as a means of highlighting our interdependence. They are interested in how our familial, platonic, romantic, and ecological bonds are transformed by what we confront in the reckoning.
Inspired by the unnameable and the everyday within Black diaspora, they use the sonic, the sculptural, and the collaborative in order to untangle threads of possibilities, in the wake of the reckonings.
Through their social practice they have co-founded and are a member of numerous artist and practitioner-led collectives, each with liberatory values and visions.
They are galvanized by what becomes possible when communities are given time, space, and resources to envision, strategize, and action towards the futures we desperately need.
Holding an MFA from Mills College, they are the recipient of multiple awards including a Foundation for Contemporary Arts award and LACE Lightening Fund Award.
Currently, they are a co-director at Level Ground [Los Angeles], a farmer-in-training on Tongva lands, and consult as a cultural organizing strategist and facilitator.