Alayo Akinkugbe

Alayo Akinkugbe is an independent writer and curator. She graduated from the University of Cambridge with a BA in History of Art in 2021 and graduated with an MA in Curating The Art Museum from the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2023. She writes the column Black Gazes for AnOther Magazine, hosts the podcast A Shared Gaze, and runs the Instagram platform, A Black History of Art – which celebrates the contributions of Black artists, sitters, curators and thinkers from art history and the present day. Alayo's forthcoming work, Reframing Blackness, confronts the ways in which Blackness has been distinctly missing from discussions of art history, bringing it into the mainstream and interrogating its consequences on culture, society and education.