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At 33, Tunji Adeniyi-Jones has already done what most artists take decades to build: museum placements across Asia, Europe, Africa, and the U.S. — including The Met, LACMA, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. In 2024, he represented Nigeria at the Venice Biennale, installing a luminous ceiling painting for the Nigeria Pavilion — work Cultured Magazine described as capturing "Adeniyi-Jones's talent for infusing the history of West Africa and the mythology of his Yoruba heritage into paintings that feel distinctly contemporary." Now's your chance to meet him before the rest of the world catches up.
Hosted by Dr. Josel Cabaccan, member of the acquisitions committee at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Pieces from his personal collection have been featured at the Venice Biennale (2022, 2024), the Louisiana Museum (2018–2019, 2023), and the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris (2023–2024), with additional showings at Centre d'Art La Malmaison de Cannes (2020). His collection has been published in Yayoi Kusama's Everyday I Pray for Love and the forthcoming Anthology of Drawings by Luc Tuymans (2026). Follow his travels through Art Basel, Frieze, and international exhibitions at @an_art_throb.
Join us for an intimate salon evening inside Dr. Cabaccan's private Bay Area home, surrounded by works from Yayoi Kusama, Cecily Brown, Rashid Johnson and more from his collection, with Tunji himself in the room.We'll talk through how his signature style came to be — bold color, fluid figures, and Yoruba mythology reimagining West African modernism for a global stage — the influences, the breakthrough moment, the process behind the work — then open it up for you to ask him directly. Just twenty seats. A collector's living room with wine and canapés. The kind of access that won't be this easy once he's a name everyone knows.
📍 Los Altos Hills (address on RSVP)
🗓️ Saturday, Oct 10 · 4:30–6:30pm
🎟️ $75 · 20 spots only
Moderated by Unfram_d
Unfram_d is a San Francisco-based art advisory practice for collectors who understand that the most enduring assets are rarely the most obvious ones.
Presented in Partnership with Nicola Baker of Deutsche Bank
This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
