Baró is pleased to announce that Yussef Agbo-Ola has been shortlisted for the eighth edition of the Future Generation Art Prize, the global contemporary art prize established by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation and organised by the PinchukArtCentre in Kyiv.
The shortlist has 21 artists and collectives. They were selected from 12,488 entries across more than 170 countries. Each shortlisted artist will be commissioned to create new works to be presented in the Future Generation Art Prize exhibition organised by the PinchukArtCentre in 2027. During the exhibition, an international jury will choose the winners. The jury is Antonia Carver, Freya Chou, Björn Geldhof, Catherine Nichols, Victoria Noorthoorn, Marie Hélène Pereira and Legacy Russell.
Yussef Agbo-Ola (b. 1990, Newport News, Virginia, USA) works between contemporary art, architecture, ecology and spirituality. Drawing on Yoruba and Cherokee cosmologies, ritual architecture, biomimicry and African fractal geometries, he builds immersive spatial environments shaped by material, ritual and the senses. He has shown at institutions and biennials including the Venice Architecture Biennale and the Lagos Biennial. He is the founder of Olaniyi Studio and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture at Columbia GSAPP. In 2026 he presented Inside the Waterfall, 12 Bones Birthed a Flower, his debut solo exhibition with Baró in Paris.
This month, Agbo-Ola also presents The Infinite Within, a solo presentation with Baró at the inaugural edition of Frieze Abu Dhabi, Manarat Al Saadiyat, from 19 to 22 November 2026.
