Bunmi Agusto

Bunmi Agusto lives and works in London. She is an artist, writer, curator and art historian who focuses on fantasy and magical storytelling. Since 2020, her artworks have chronicled life in the magical paracosm in her mind called ‘Within’. With every drawing, painting and exhibition, she continues this ever-expanding narrative by using this interior world as a site to explore psychology, cultural theory and the evolution of selfhood through the lens of fantasy. Her practice primarily consists of works on paper that combine drawing, painting, and printmaking.

Agusto was selected as one of the Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2023. She was also awarded the Mansfield-Ruddock Prize in 2023, the Clarendon Scholarship in 2022 and the Cass Art Prize in 2019 and 2020. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally and was featured in the Free The Wind, The Spirit and The Sun exhibition curated by Yinka Shonibare CBE RA at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London in 2023. She most recently consulted on visuals for ‘The Story & The Engine’ —the first episode of BBC’s Doctor Who to be set in Africa, written by Inua Ellams MBE. She acted as a Cultural Collaborator on the Nigeria Pavilion for the 2025 London Design Biennale.

She holds an MFA from Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, an MA in History of Art & Archaeology from SOAS University, London and a BA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, for which she received distinctions in all three degrees.

b. 1999