About

Destinie Adelakun is a contemporary multi-disciplinary Canadian visual artist, stylist, photographer and muse.

Her work extends from mixed-media, painting, photography to film and sculpture; that explore topics ranging from African history, mythology, and spirituality.

Destinie utilizes individuals in her work as a personification of principles and ideas, and re-illustrating African and Indian mythological tales. She celebrates women of the African diaspora and plays with adornment that embodies the creative direction of the work.

Her theological mythologies and ideologies are demonstrated through the body of work in forms of photography and digital art. The self-taught artist was born in Lagos, Nigeria and raised in Nagpur India, and she currently lives and works from both Toronto, Canada and New York City.

Adelakun received a B.F.A Fashion Production in 2016 from The London College of Fashion. Although Destinie was trained in fashion production, she is also a photographer and works experimentally across many mediums. Her photography is inspired conceptually by the ideas of race, spirituality, African/ Indian religions, identity, sexuality, theology, and history.

Aside from being an artist she has curated several art shows in the New York region and recently transitioned to showing her work of arts and her photography. Her work has been published in Kinfolk and Water magazine.

“Negritude” Arts East New York Gallery, 2018

Info

New York, New York

Toronto, Canada

info@destinieadelakun.com