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my name is tunde Wey. i am nigerian social practice artist using food, finance and investment capital to address economic disparities across geographies and demographies. my work engages systems that create material disparity, focusing particularly on how economics and finance impact working class Black people globally. i use performance and installation, film, food, writing and finance to confront disparities in material conditions and attempt interventions to address these socially constructed inequalities.

now to the “light stunt on these hoes 💅” section of my bio:
my work has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, GQ, The Washington Post, VOGUE, Black Enterprise, Food and Wine, and my writing has appeared in the Oxford American, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Roads & Kingdom and a couple cookbooks/ anthologies. my docuseries is a 2024 CANNESERIES Official Selection. i am a recipient of the Monroe Fellowship from Tulane University (2023) and the Ford Foundation Just Films Grant (2022). i am currently working on a book of essays to be published with MCD (a division of Farrar, Straus & Giroux).

more importantly, in 2019, after almost a decade of undocumented living, i received U.S. permanent resident status and now, just like the honey badger i don’t really give a shit 😘 * **

FROM LAGOS. why the name? LAGOS is a port city, the most populous in nigeria and one of the fastest-growing cities in the world. it’s where i was a child, learning and living all the things that my adult heart now remembers as nostalgia. it was where i couldn’t return to for 20 years because of U.S’ discriminatory immigration regime. anyway… i’ve finally been back home and i’m glad

for inquiries: iam@fromlagos.com

* i wrote this bio in 2019. that’s a long time ago. i give many shits now
** actually, i became a u.s citizen in march of 2024, after 24 years of living in the united states, and i’m back on my honey badger b.s, i don’t give a shit again 😘