Peju Layiwola is an artist/Professor of Art history.   Her research, writing and artistic engagements, have consistently engaged themes of artefact pillage, restitution, memory and artistic trajectories of African and Diaspora artists.  She has published and exhibited widely-her most recent exhibition being RESIST! The Art of Resistance  at the Rautenstrauch Joest Museum, Koln, Germany (2019-2020). She has received several awards and grants: a few include the Lagos Studies Association Distinguished Scholar's Award, 2021; Tyson Scholar, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Arkansas, 2019 and the Terra Foundation for American Art Grant (2018), USA and SSA British Council Award (2021). She is also an alumnus of the CAA-Getty International Program, participating in 2013, 2018 and 2020 (USA). Layiwola served as visiting professor at the University of Arkansas (2019-2020) and has been on several international residencies.  She is the first resident African scholar to be President of the Art Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA), USA; a life member of the Lagos Studies Association and a member of the College Arts Association, USA. 

She is listed in Art Cities of the Future: 21^st Century Avant-Gardes, 2014 and African Artists From 1882 to now (2021) by Phaidon press, London.