Péjú Oshin is a British-Nigerian curator, writer and cultural strategist redefining how art, style, and culture intersect. Born and raised in South London, she champions diasporic narratives and liminal theory while engaging global audiences through museums, brands, and cultural platforms and has over a decade of experience working across art, design, education and culture.

Since beginning her career in 2015, Péjú has curated and led projects that have reached audience numbers in the hundreds of thousands worldwide, and collaborated with hundreds of artists and cultural producers. Her curatorial practice invites audiences to traverse uncharted territories, creating space for critical dialogue and emotional resonance.

In late 2025, Péjú (re)launched her independent practice through Studio Sovereign, a creative thought studio and consultancy working with artists, galleries, institutions and organisations to transmit cultural ideas and experiences to the world.

With a foundation in Architecture and Design, Péjú brings a spatial and structural intelligence to her curatorial work. She holds a Foundation Studies in Architecture from the University of Kent, a BA in Interior Design & Technology from London Metropolitan University, a PgCert in Academic Practice from the University of the Arts London, and has earned the status of an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA). As an academic, she has taught at Central Saint Martins on the MA Applied Imagination in the Creative Industries and Graduate Diploma in Fashion, has guest lectured at many other UAL colleges, and a visiting lecturer at Royal College of Art to name a few. She is currently an Associate Lecturer on BA Creative Direction for Fashion at London College of Fashion.

A selection of Péjú’s exhibitions and programmes include Rites of Passage(Gagosian, 2023), Behind the Black Square (Universal Music Group HQ, London, 2022), Stillness: We Invoke the Black to Rest (2020), Beyond Boundaries (2021), and Late at Tate Britain: Life Between Islands(2021) and Hew Locke (2022). She also led the Barbican’s first Young Curators Group (2019–2020) and ASSEMBLY in 2018.

As a leader in the arts from 2022 to 2025, Péjú held the role of Associate Director at Gagosian gallery, where she played an important role in expanding curatorial and public-facing initiatives as well as advising clients and making sales. From 2019 to 2022, Péjú served as Curator of Young People’s Programmes at Tate, where she developed large-scale national and international initiatives that reached new and diverse audiences across Tate Modern and Tate Britain in conjunction with the Tate Collective Scheme. Péjú intially joined Tate in 2018 as an Assistant Curator working on a variety of publications, publica programming and educational resources having started her career years prior at the London Transport Museum.

As a writer, Péjú has contributed essays and interviews for institutions and publications including Gagosian Quarterly, Financial Times HTSI, the prestigous Ars Viva 2025 Award and Serpentine Galleries, with her texts reaching a readership of more than half a million worldwide. Her debut book, Between Words & Space (2021), blends poetry and prose to explore the relationship between language, form, and identity.

Beyond exhibitions and writing, Péjú is a sought-after speaker, host and panellist, having chaired and delivered talks for the National Portrait Gallery, Financial Times Weekend Festival, Google, Serpentine, Byredo, and Cheltenham Literature Festival, among others. She has served as a judge for awards and initiatives including the innagural Ian Rosenfeld Fund (2026), Angels and Muse Sculpture Park Prize, Benin City Nigeria (2025), Jackson’s Art Prize (2025), ING Discerning Eye (2023), JW Anderson × AWITA (2022), Huxley-Parlour’s fourbythree (2021), and The Other Art Fair (2021).

Recognised for her impact, Péjú was the receipent of the NIDA Curator of the Year award (2024) with the ceremony held in Paris, shortlisted for Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe (Arts & Culture) and named one of AWITA’s Fifteen Rising Stars (2021). She currently serves on the 2026-7 Advisory Group for the ICF (International Curators Forum), Trustee of Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts), Associate Patron of The Photographers’ Gallery, and a member of the Art Fund Curatorial Diversity Steering Group.She previously served as Chair of Trustees at Peckham Platform, leading the organisation through a period of strategic renewal and expansion.

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Péjú Oshin is a British-Nigerian curator, writer, and cultural strategist whose work bridges art, identity, and culture. Her practice reimagines how audiences experience contemporary art through dialogue, collaboration, and storytelling.

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Péjú Oshin is a British-Nigerian curator, writer, and cultural strategist whose work explores the intersections of art, identity, and culture. She is the Founder of Studio Sovereign, a creative thought studio and consultancy that works with artists, galleries, institutions, and organisations to share cultural ideas and experiences with the world. She is also currently an Associate Lecturer at London College of Fashion and serves on the 2026-7 Advisory Group for the ICF (International Curators Forum) and as Trustee of Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts). She has previously held curatorial roles at Gagosian as Associate Director (2022-25), Tate as Curator (2018-22), and served on numerous panels as a judge for arts awards and prizes internationally.

Selected curatorial projects include Rites of Passage (Gagosian, 2023), Beyond Boundaries (Tate, 2021), and Stillness: We Invoke the Black to Rest (Tate, 2020). As a writer, her work has appeared in Gagosian Quarterly, Financial Times HTSI, the prestigious Ars Viva Award, and several exhibition texts. She is also the author of Between Words & Space (2021), a collection of poetry and prose.