About
Tosin Adeosun is a London-based researcher, curator, and consultant specialising in the art, culture, and fashion history of the African diaspora. Her practice sits at the intersection of archives, visual culture, and emerging technologies.
She is the founder and curator of African Style Archive, a research platform dedicated to documenting African fashion history through archival photographs, moving image, and ephemera. Her work is grounded in unearthing and narrating underrepresented histories - particularly those of Africa and its global diasporas -through photography, art, and material culture.
Previously, she led art partnerships and projects for East Africa at Google Arts & Culture, where she stewarded the launch of digitisation and storytelling programmes in collaboration with institutions such as the Rwanda Cultural Heritage Academy, Book Bunk, Mohamed Amin Foundation, and Milele Contemporary Lab. Her work there helped to amplify the visibility of African cultural heritage through innovative digital platforms.
She has also worked across television, museums, and academia - serving as a visual art researcher for a television series in development, contributing to the Africa Fashion exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and curating a digital exhibition with a public programme in partnership with the London College of Fashion.
She collaborates regularly with archives, communities, and institutions on research, curatorial, and educational projects. Her collaborators have included the International Curators Forum, BYREDO, Ahluwalia, Soho House, Art360 Foundation, South London Gallery, Modern Art Oxford, Institute of Contemporary Arts London, and Counterpoints Arts. She has also guest lectured for the Costume and Performance Design course at Arts University Bournemouth.