Oluseyi Akinyode is an arts & humanities practitioner based in Washington, DC, who uses art as a gateway to explore, probe, and make sense of the world through text (essays, poetry) and other modes of expression. She is an arts writing fellow with the online cultural issues magazine DCTrending and the Washington Independent Review of Books (WIRB). She is also completing the Barnes Foundation’s Two-Year De Mazia Certificate Program and holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from New York University.
Currently, Oluseyi is interested in the connection between landscapes depicted in British visual works, such as Thomas Gainsborough’s paintings, and former and contemporary Caribbean plantations and their persisting legacies on Caribbean descendants.
Oluseyi is a 2023 Day Eight Arts Writing Fellow, a recipient of the Barnes Foundation’s Richard J. Wattenmaker Scholarship, a 2024 HumanitiesDC Oral History Collaborative grantee, and the 2025 DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities Fellow.
Oluseyi is currently working on Now, We See You!, an Oral History Project capturing the often-overlooked stories of DC’s transforming neighborhoods in dialogue with George Bellow’s The Lone Tenement.
