Jadé Fadojutimi was raised in Ilford, East London, and is of Nigerian heritage. She attended the Slade School of Fine Art and receiving her MA from the Royal College of Art. Based in London, the artist cites her studio as an integral component of her practice. Painting functions as a method of introspection and her works are inspired by various materials in her surrounding environment. Fadojutimi often draws from objects and sources of interest in her practice: anime, soft toys, colors, and Japanese culture. Her paintings develop in an improvisational manner with movement informing the artist’s work; Fadjojutimi often runs, jumps, and dances while painting. This is observed through the gestural movements evident in the expressive brushstrokes that make up her paintings. In addition to painting, the artist also uses language as a mode of self-expression, often through her writing and titles of works, which draw from ideas on the artist’s mind as she is painting.

Jadé Fadojutimi is most notable for being the youngest artist to have her work collected by the Tate, in 2018, at age twenty-eight. Her work has also been collected by Baltimore Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. Fadojutimi was featured in the Fifty-Ninth Venice Biennale, The Milk of Dreams, and her first institutional solo exhibition, Yet, Another Pathetic Fallacy, took place at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami in 2021.